[R] empty string

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Wolski wrote:

> Hi!
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> How to generate a empty string of a precise length without using a loop?

paste(rep(" ",n), collapse="")

gives a string of n spaces.

	-thomas


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> I need a empty string (char **) to pass it with .C function to a c dll.
> The c routine writes the result into the string.
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> Eryk.
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
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