[R] How to Turn OFF Vectors Recycling Rule in Paste()

[Preeti ranjan Pradhan]

Okay, thank you all for your reply.

In SAS it doesn't do that way, so I was bit confused. Anyways thanks all.

Cheers.


On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:37 PM, PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:

> Hi
>
> as Jeff said you cannot without modifying source code for paste.
>
> If your problem is as you expressed it you can do e.g.
>
> paste(S, append(X, rep(NA, length(S)-length(X))))
>
> Cheers
> Petr
>
>
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> > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Preeti
> > ranjan Pradhan
> > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 12:43 AM
> > To: r-help at r-project.org
> > Subject: [R] How to Turn OFF Vectors Recycling Rule in Paste()
> >
> > Hello Team,
> >
> > Platform:Windows 7 32-bit
> > R Version:3.2.2
> >
> > I have two vectors as follows
> >
> > > S = c("aa", "bb", "cc", "dd", "ee")
> > > X= c("aa", "bb", "cc", "dd")
> >
> > When I trying a paste function
> >
> > > z=paste(S,X)
> > > z
> >
> > I am getting result as
> >
> > [1] "aa aa" "bb bb" "cc cc" "dd dd" "ee aa"
> >
> > I don't need the last element of S vector should get concatenated with
> > first element of X vector rather than it should take a space or null
> > value for concatenation. If I specify explicit space value in X vector
> > like
> >
> > > X= c("aa", "bb", "cc", "dd", " ")
> >
> > Then I am getting result as
> > > z=paste(S,X)
> > > z
> > [1] "aa aa" "bb bb" "cc cc" "dd dd" "ee  "
> >
> > Could you please suggest me how to turn off the Vector recycle in paste
> > function?
> >
> > Thanks and Regards
> > Preetiranjan Pradhan
> >
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