[R] [External] Concatenation?

[Bert Gunter]

... or simply
> paste0(c("A","B","C"), c(1,2,3))
[1] "A1" "B2" "C3"

See ?paste for other useful options.

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 1:26 PM Parkhurst, David <parkhurs using indiana.edu>
wrote:

> Thank you.
>
> From: Richard M. Heiberger <rmh using temple.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 4:21 PM
> To: Parkhurst, David <parkhurs using indiana.edu>, r-help using r-project.org <
> r-help using r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [External] [R] Concatenation?
> > paste(c("A","B","C"), c(1,2,3), sep="")
> [1] "A1" "B2" "C3"
>
> in your example
> paste(site, depth, sep="")
>
> ________________________________________
> From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Parkhurst, David
> <parkhurs using indiana.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 4:09 PM
> To: r-help using r-project.org
> Subject: [External] [R] Concatenation?
>
> If I have a vector of site abbreviations and a vector of depths in those
> water bodies, is there a simple way in R to combine them to make a third
> vector?
> Examples:
>
> site    depth           desired
> MU      0               MU0
> MU      1               MU1
> MU      2               MU2
> MC      0               MC0
> MC      1               MC1
> MC      2               MC2
>
> The dataset has many more lines than this.  I can see how to do this with
> lots of if statements, but does R have magic that can make it happen
> easily?  I guess this would be called concatenation.
>
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