[R] Paste Funtion Help

[Ulrik Stervbo]

Hi Shivi,

I usually do

merge.salaries$name <- paste(merge.salaries$nameFirst,
merge.salaries$nameLast)

also if merge.salaries[, name:=paste("nameFirst","nameLast")] would work,
you would end up with a column full of "nameFirst nameLast".

Best,
Ulrik

On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 at 17:32 SHIVI BHATIA <shivi.bhatia at safexpress.com>
wrote:

> HI Team,
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> Need help with the below syntax.
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> merge.salaries[, name:=paste("nameFirst","nameLast")]. Here merge.salaries
> is the data set I have merged.
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> There are 2 columns nameFirst and nameLast I need to merge these two into
> one and name as name however I can getting an error:
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> Error in `[.data.frame`(merge.salaries, , `:=`(name, paste("nameFirst",  :
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>   could not find function ":="
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> Please advice.
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> Thanks, Shivi
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