[Rd] "+" operator on characters revisited

[Spencer Graves]

Consider the following from Python 2.6.5:


 >>> 'abc'+ 2

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
     'abc'+ 2
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects
 >>> 'abc'+'2'
'abc2'
 >>>


       Spencer


On 1/23/2011 8:09 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>> Yet another useful suggestion of introducing cat0() and paste0(), for
>> the common use of cat and paste with sep="" was not absorbed by the
>> core R either.
> stringr has str_c which is a replacement for paste with sep = "" and
> automatic removal of length 0 inputs.
>
> Hadley
>
>


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