[R] String question

[(Ted Harding)]

On 23-Dec-09 11:40:12, baptiste auguie wrote:
> Isn't paste doing exactly this?
> 
> temp <- c("November", "December","Monday","Tuesday")
> paste(temp, collapse=",")
># "November,December,Monday,Tuesday"
> 
> HTH,
> baptiste

Yes, spot-on! I got involved in the confusion resulting from
the use of "sep" in previous postings.

I think that solves it for Knut!
Ted.

> 2009/12/23 Ted Harding <Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk>:
>> On 23-Dec-09 11:08:02, Knut Krueger wrote:
>>> Jim Lemon schrieb:
>>>> Not as easy as I thought it would be, but:
>>>>
>>>> mlist<-as.list(paste("m",1:sample(5:10,1),sep=""))
>>>> do.call("paste",c(mlist,sep=","))
>>>
>>> Hi Jim,
>>> yes it works _:-)
>>>
>>> temp <- c("November", "December","Monday","Tuesday")
>>> length(temp) #getting the length of the vector
>>> string1=do.call("paste",c(as.list(temp),sep=",")) #converting to a
>>> string
>>>
>>> but I have no idea where I could find that documentation ;-)
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot
>>> Knut
>>
>> Interestingly, cat() does the pasting job in the simplest
>> possible way:
>>
>>> temp <- c("November", "December","Monday","Tuesday")
>>> cat(temp,sep=",")
>> November,December,Monday,Tuesday>
>>
>> [copied from the R console; note the trialing ">" which is
>> _the command prompt for the next input -- not part of the
>> _output of cat() ]
>>
>> with output to screen (or to nominated file). But there
>> seems to be no way to persuade cat to *return* this result
>> as a value, which could be assigned to a variable.
>>
>> If there were such a way, that would be a very smooth solution!
>>
>> Ted.
>>
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