[R] String manipulation

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

Hi Robin,

regarding you first question you could use,

str <- c("one","two","three")
paste(str, collapse=", ")

hoewver, describing what you actually want to do I'd use,

names1 <- letters[1:10]
names2 <- letters[1:20]
lis <- lapply(1:2, function(x) get(paste("names", x, sep="")))
names(lis) <- c("female", "male")
lis

I hope this helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Gruna" <robin_gruna at hotmail.com>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:07 AM
Subject: [R] String manipulation


> Hi,
> let's see, if someone can help my with this one:
> I have the string as follows:
> > str<-("one","two","three")
>
> Now I want to concatenate the items to one string, seperateted by
space or
> something else,
> >str
> >"one, two, three"
> If possible without a loop.
>
> My actual goal ist to create string like
> >str.names
> >"female = names1, male = names2"
> and pass it as argument to list(), intending to create a list
> >names.list<-list( female = names1, male = names2)
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Robin
>
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