[R] Applying do.call to a data.frame using function arguments

[hadley wickham]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:31 AM,
miller_2555<nabble.30.miller_2555 at spamgourmet.com> wrote:
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> miller_2555 wrote:
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>> I'm trying to convert a data.frame to a series of strings (row-wise).
>> There was a very good discussion awhile back (2002) entitled "[R] string
>> concatenate across rows of a matrix??" where Tony Plate recommended the
>> following two alternatives (x2 is an R object of type data frame -- a
>> matrix also works for solution #1):
>>     1) apply(format(x2), 1, paste, collapse=" ");
>>     2) do.call("paste",x2)
>>
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> Nevermind. Stupid question. The solution is:
> do.call("paste",c(x2,sep='","'));

I think you're missing some quotes:
cat(do.call("paste",c(x2,sep='","'))[1], "\n")

Hadley

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