[R] create string of comma-separated content of vector

Mark Wardle mark at wardle.org
Tue May 19 20:03:12 CEST 2009


see ?paste

e.g.

x <- seq(0,10,1)
paste(x, collapse=", ")


2009/5/19 Katharina May <may.katharina at googlemail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> how do I create a string of the comma-separated content of a vector?
>
> I've got the vector i with several numeric values as content:
>>str(i)
> num 99
>
> and want to create a SQL statement to look like the following where
> the part '(2, 4, 6, 7)' should be
> the content of the vector i:
> select * from  [biomass_data$] where site_no in (2, 4, 6, 7)
>
> Here my approach (which doesn't work):
> site_all_data <=  sqlQuery(channel, "select * from  [biomass_data$]
> where site_no in (",paste(i,sep=","),") )
>
>
> sorry for spaming so much today to the mailing list...
>
> -Katharina
>
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