hi eik, mark and sarah,

thank you for your help!

i was looking for the t-command but in the end the apply-command did the
trick.

marion

2011/9/20 Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee@gmail.com>

> It isn't entirely clear to me what you want, but here are all the
> possibilities
> I could think of. I hope one of them does what you want.
>
> > testmat <- matrix(1:8, ncol=2)
> > testmat
>     [,1] [,2]
> [1,]    1    5
> [2,]    2    6
> [3,]    3    7
> [4,]    4    8
> > paste(testmat, collapse=" ")
> [1] "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8"
> > paste(t(testmat), collapse=" ")
> [1] "1 5 2 6 3 7 4 8"
> > apply(testmat, 1, paste, collapse=" ")
> [1] "1 5" "2 6" "3 7" "4 8"
> > apply(testmat, 2, paste, collapse=" ")
> [1] "1 2 3 4" "5 6 7 8"
>
> Sarah
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Marion Wenty <marion.wenty@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have another question concerning the paste command:
> >
> > now instead of a vector I would like to paste the elements of a matrix
> > together, which works in the same:
> >
> > Mypastedmatrix <- paste(Mymatrix,collapse="")
> >
> > My problem now is that the program does this BY COLUMN, but I would like
> to
> > have the elements pasted together BY ROW.
> >
> > Could anybody help me with this?
> >
> > Marion
> >
> --
> Sarah Goslee
> http://www.functionaldiversity.org
>

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