[R] Paste every two columns together

[Chel Hee Lee]

Hi Bert! yes, you are VERY correct!!!  Why am I making this simple thing 
so complicated???  ;) Thank you so much for your nice lesson!

Chel Hee Lee

On 01/28/2015 09:59 PM, Bert Gunter wrote:
> eek!
>
> Chel Hee,anything that complicated should engender fear and trembling.
>
> Much simpler and more efficient (if I understand correctly)
>
> i <- seq.int(1L,length(ID1),by = 2L)
> paste0(ID1[i],ID1[i+1])
>
> That gives a vector of paired letters. If you want a single character
> string, just collapse with a " " (space):
>
> paste0(ID1[i],ID1[i+1],collapse= " ")
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
> Bert Gunter
> Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
> (650) 467-7374
>
> "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
> is certainly not wisdom."
> Clifford Stoll
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Chel Hee Lee <chl948 at mail.usask.ca> wrote:
>> I am using just the first row of your data (i.e. ID1).
>>
>>> ID1 <- c("A", "A", "T", "G", "C", "T", "G", "C", "G", "T", "C", "G", "T",
>>> "A")
>>> do.call(c,lapply(tapply(ID1, gl(7,2), c), paste, collapse=""))
>>     1    2    3    4    5    6    7
>> "AA" "TG" "CT" "GC" "GT" "CG" "TA"
>>>
>>
>> Is this what you are looking for?  I hope this helps.
>>
>> Chel Hee Lee
>>
>>
>> On 01/28/2015 05:55 PM, Kate Ignatius wrote:
>>>
>>> I have genetic data as follows (simple example, actual data is much
>>> larger):
>>>
>>> comb =
>>>
>>> ID1 A A T G C T G C G T C G T A
>>>
>>> ID2 G C T G C C T G C T G T T T
>>>
>>> And I wish to get an output like this:
>>>
>>> ID1 AA TG CT GC GT CG TA
>>>
>>> ID2 GC TG CC TG CT GT TT
>>>
>>> That is, paste every two columns together.
>>>
>>> I have this code, but I get the error:
>>>
>>> Error in seq.default(2, nchar(x), 2) : 'to' must be of length 1
>>>
>>> conc <- function(x) {
>>>     s <- seq(2, nchar(x), 2)
>>>     paste0(x[s], x[s+1])
>>> }
>>>
>>> combn <- as.data.frame(lapply(comb, conc), stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
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