[R] alternative way to replicate()

[jim holtman]

Is this what you want:

> paste(rep('2',5), collapse=',')
[1] "2,2,2,2,2"
>


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Johannes Hüsing <johannes at huesing.name> wrote:
> Am 03.12.2008 um 09:06 schrieb Liviu Andronic:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm looking for an alternative way to replicate the "2," string for an
>> x number of times, and end up with one string containing "2," x times.
>> I can partly achieve this using replicate().
>>>
>>> y <- rep("2,", times=3)
>>> y
>>>
>
> JFTR: replicate() is a different function from rep(). See ?rep and
> ?replicate.
>
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What is the problem that you are trying to solve?