[R] Probs with paste

[Charilaos Skiadas]

I have to say it is not clear at all what you expected. risk.factors 
[1] is the character vector "file$A". You ask it to do a paste of  
that, so of course it will just return itself. Then you do a table,  
and naturally it tells you that it found "file$A" exactly once.

So what you have forgotten to tell us (apart from what your overall  
goal with this is, which might be helpful in this case) is what  
output you expected instead.

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College

On Jun 9, 2008, at 10:44 AM, EVANS David-William wrote:

> Hello all,
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> After some months doing ok with R, I am embarrassed that I have to  
> make
> this my first posting to the help list.  I am trying to run the
> following (actually in a loop but shortened for the post):
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> risk.factors  <-  c("file$A", "file$B", "file$C", "file$D", "file$E")
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>     table(paste(risk.factors[1]))
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>
> but run into problems with the table (paste...) line as I get the
> following output:
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>> table(paste(risk.factors[1]))
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> file$A
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>              1
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> I think it's a problem with paste including " " around the file  
> name but
> cannot get around it.  Apologies for the simple nature of this  
> question
> and thanks to anyone who can take a moment to help.
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> David.
>