[R] String split and concatenation

[Ista Zahn]

Hi Steven,
This should do it:

paste('"', unlist(strsplit(x, split="")), c(rep('",', length(x)-1), ""), sep="")

-Ista

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Steven Kang <stochastickang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi R users,
>
>
> I desire to transform the following vector consisting of repeated characters
>
> x <- rep(letters, 3)
> into this exact format (i.e a single string containing each characters in
> quotation mark separated by comma between each; al ).
>
> ("a", "b", "c", "d", ........"a", "b", "c", "d", ..........., "a", "b", "c",
> "d", ........."z")
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
>
>
> --
> Steven
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Ista Zahn
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