[R] Strplit code

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Pardon my ignorance, but why is the do.call necessary?  why not just execute the rbind function?  What's the advantage in putting it in a do.call "wrapper"? 

On Sep 20, 2011, at 2:44 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote:

> In S+  do.call's first argument must be a character string
> that gives the name of the function, so replace
> do.call(rbind, ...)
> with
>  do.call("rbind", ...)
> 
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
> From: Santosh [mailto:santosh2005 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 2:55 AM
> To: William Dunlap; R help
> Subject: Re: [R] Strplit code
> 
> Dear R- Splus experts,
> In R, I have frequently used do.call with strsplit. and I have a hard time with Splus.. any suggestions?
> 
> for example, the R code below:
> 
> do.call(rbind,strsplit(paste(letters[1:10],c(1:10))," "))
> 
> Thanks so much,
> Santosh
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:51 AM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com<mailto:wdunlap at tibco.com>> wrote:
>  [R] Strplit code
>  pomchip at free.fr<http://free.fr> pomchip at free.fr<http://free.fr>
>  Wed Dec 3 20:52:21 CET 2008
> 
>  Dear R-users,
> 
>  The strsplit function does not exist in S-plus and I would like to
> use it. How
>  could I reproduce the function in Splus or access to its source code?
>  Thank you in advance,
> 
>  Sebastien
> strsplit() was added to S+ 8.0 (May 2007).  At the same time
> we changed the default regular expression style from 'basic'
> (a.k.a. 'obsolete') to 'extended' and we added the string functions
> sub(), gsub(), and sprintf().
> 
> S+ 8.1 is now available (as of November 2008).
> 
> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Software Inc - Spotfire Division
> wdunlap tibco.com<http://tibco.com>
> 
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