[R] converting numeric into character strings

[Olivier ETERRADOSSI]

Hi Melissa
unless I miss a point, you should get what you want with (for example)

y<-paste(b,collapse=",")

Hope this helps. Olivier


Melissa2k9 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Im trying to put some numbers into a dataframe , I have a list of numbers
> (change points in a time series) like such
> 
> [1]  2 11 12 20 21 98 99
> 
> but I want R to recognise this as just a character string so it will put
> it in one row and column, ideally I want them seperated by commas so I
> would have for example
> 
> Person              Change points (seconds)
> A                       2,11,12,20,21,98,99  
> B                        4,5,89
>  
> etc. Is there any way I can get this
> 
> I've tried this:
> 
> for example if the command to get the list of numbers was b<-which(a!=s),
> then i have tried
> 
> as.character(b) but I just end up with 
> 
> [1] "2"  "11" "12" "20" "21" "98" "99"
> 
> which is not what I want as this is more than one string and is not
> seperated by commas, I also tried
> 
> paste(b,sep=",") but I end up with the same thing. Sorry it's a bit
> confusing to read but any help would be great! 
> 
> Melissa
> 

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