[R] How to repeat the names?

[Paul Hiemstra]

Hi,

Take a look at rep(), specifically the each = parameter.

cheers,
Paul

Madhavi Bhave wrote:
> Dear R helpers
>  
> I have a city.csv file as given below.
>  
> 'city.csv'
> city_name1        city_name2
> New York City    Buffallo       
>  
> So I define
>  
> city_name = read.csv('city.csv')
> city1 = city_name$city_name1
> city2 = city_name$city_name2
>  
> My problem is how do I repeat the names one after other say 10 times i.e. my output should be like
>  
> New York 
> City Buffallo
> New York 
> City Buffallo 
> New York 
> City Buffallo 
> New York City 
> ...................
> ...................
> ...................
> ...................
>  
> I have tried the following commands 
>  
> rep(c(city1,city2), 5)
>  
> and I got the output something like this 
>  
> [1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 .......
>  
> If I try
>  
> rep((city1,city2), 5)
>  
> Error: unexpected ',' in "rep((city1,"
>  
> Please guide
>  
> Regards
>  
> MAdhavi
>
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