[R] c(), or cat(), or paste(), all cause unwanted reordering

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Maybe:

gsub("^(.*)$", "..\\1...", "a string")

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Jeff Brown <dopethatwantscash at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would expect the following:
>
> paste(
>        as.character( cat( rep( ".", 2 ) ) ),
>        "a string",
>        as.character( cat( rep( ".", 3 ) ) )
> );
>
> to yield this string: ". . a string . . .", but instead it yields this:
>
>> . .. . .[1] " a string "
>
> The third argument has been stuck immediately after the first.  The same
> thing happens with cat() or c(). What's going on?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
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