[R] pasting elements of one character vector together

[Eik Vettorazzi]

Hi marion,
just transpose the matrix:
mm<-matrix(LETTERS[1:20],nrow=5)
paste(t(mm),collapse="")
or - if you want the result seperated by rows

apply(mm,1,paste,collapse="")

cheers

Am 20.09.2011 11:55, schrieb Marion Wenty:
> I have another question concerning the paste command:
> 
> now instead of a vector I would like to paste the elements of a matrix
> together, which works in the same:
> 
> Mypastedmatrix <- paste(Mymatrix,collapse="")
> 
> My problem now is that the program does this BY COLUMN, but I would like to
> have the elements pasted together BY ROW.
> 
> Could anybody help me with this?
> 
> Marion
> 
> 2011/9/19 Marion Wenty <marion.wenty at gmail.com>
> 
>> hello michael and dimitris,
>> yes, this was it!
>> now i understand this collapse-argument.
>> thank you very much.
>> marion
>>
>>
>> 2011/9/19 Dimitris Rizopoulos <d.rizopoulos at erasmusmc.nl>
>>
>>> Try this:
>>>
>>> object <- c("Hello", "World")
>>> paste(object, collapse = " ")
>>>
>>>
>>> I hope it helps.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Dimitris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/19/2011 3:58 PM, Marion Wenty wrote:
>>>
>>>> hello,
>>>>
>>>> i am familiar with the paste command with which i can paste for exaple:
>>>>
>>>> object<- "Hello"
>>>> paste(object,"World")
>>>>
>>>> now i would like to be able to paste all the elements of the same vector
>>>> together e.g:
>>>>
>>>> object<- c("Hello","World")
>>>>
>>>> getting as a result also:
>>>>
>>>> "Hello World".
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know the solution to this problem?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Marion
>>>>
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