[R] String manipulation, insert delim

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

> paste(read.fwf(textConnection(foo), bar, as.is = TRUE), collapse = ",")
[1] "have,a,nice,day"


On 6/18/07, Christopher Marcum <cmarcum at uci.edu> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I've been using R for two years now and I am happy to say this is the
> first time I could not find the answer to my problem in the R-help
> archives. Here is the pending problem:
>
> I want to be able to insert delimiters, say commas, into a string of
> characters at uneven intervals such that:
>
> foo<-c("haveaniceday")#my string of character
> bar<-c(4,1,4,3) # my vector of uneven intervals
>
> my.fun(foo,bar) # some function that places delimiters appropriately
>
> have,a,nice,day # what the function would ideally return
>
> I've tried multiple for-loops using cut and paste but have not had success.
>
> Thanks!
> Chris Marcum
> UCI Sociology
>
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