[R] paste doesn't appear to paste?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Michaell Taylor <pols1oh at bestweb.net> writes:

> Sorry to be posting another question, but my learning curve is starting to 
> flatten some now.
> 
> What am I missing here?  
> 
> > temp _ name[reis==toupper(location[order(Vgrablow2)][N])]
> > temp
> [1] "Lawton"
> > paste(temp,g)
> [1] "Lawton"                    # WHERE IS THE SECOND ELEMENT?
> > g
> [1] 0.29
> > a _ "Lawton"
> > paste(a,g)
> [1] "Lawton 0.29"           # THIS WORKS (SECOND ELEMENT EXISTS ALSO)
> > mode(a)
> [1] "character"
> > mode(temp)
> [1] "character"  		# TEMP AND A ARE BOTH CHARACTERS
> >  paste(temp,g,sep="---")
> [1] "Lawton"		# DOESN'T EVEN GIVE THE SEPERATOR
> >  paste(a,g,sep="---")
> [1] "Lawton---0.29"
> 
> 
> 
> extraneous info:
> 
> > mode(reis)
> [1] "character"
> > mode(location)
> [1] "character"

Nothing obvious. We may have a bug and/or something odd sneaked into
the "name" vector. What's the version info, btw?

You could try

dput(temp)
a==temp

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