[R] quiry on paste() function

[Jan van der Laan]

Perhaps, the following construct does what you need:

paste(c("a", "b", "c"), c(",", ":", ""), sep="",collapse="")

Regards,
Jan



On 29-10-2010 10:49, Ron Michael wrote:
> Hi all, I want to club different objects (character type) to a single one and using paste() function that can be done happily. However the problem with paste function is the separator field is unique for all underlying objects. If I put separator as "-" then this will come in between all underlying objects which are to be clubbed.
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> Therefore I am wondering whether there is any mechanism to put different separators for different places. Trivially this can be done by applying paste() function repeatedly. However I feel there must be some single mechanism for doing that.
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> Here is one example, where I apply paste() function twice to incorporate 2 different separators:
>> paste(paste("a", "b", sep=","), "c", sep=":")
> [1] "a,b:c"
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> Can the same thing be done using paste() function once? something like:
> paste("a", "b", "c", sep=c(",", ":")) # this put 1st separator everywhere which is not intended
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> Thanks,
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