[R-sig-eco] How to remove space among columns

Bret Collier bret at tamu.edu
Wed Mar 27 14:43:01 CET 2013


l=data.frame(col1=c(0,1,0), col2=c(1,0,1), col3=c(1, 0, 1), col4=c(0, 0, 
1), col5=c("a", "a", "b"), col6=c("c", "d", "d"))
ll=paste(l$col1, l$col2, l$col3, l$col4, sep="")
data.frame(ll, a=l$col5, b=l$col6)

see ?paste

bret

On 3/27/2013 8:15 AM, Manuel Spínola wrote:
> Thank you very much to all that answered my question, some one of you asked
> me to be more specific, here is my question again:
>
> I hava a data frame:
>
> col1  col2 col3 col4 col5 col6
> 0        1      1     0     a    c
> 1        0      0     0     a    d
> 0        1      1     1     b    d
>
> I want to end with a data frame like this (the first 4 columns without
> space):
>
> 0110     a    c
> 1000     a    d
> 0111     b    d
>
>
> Best,
>
> Manuel
>
>
>
> 2013/3/26 Roman Luštrik <roman.lustrik at gmail.com>
>
>> How do you want to remove the space, so that when you print a data frame
>> that the columns are closer together? Pr perhaps you're trying to merge
>> column names into a single string? Perhaps something third? Can you expand
>> your answer?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Roman
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/3/27 Manuel Spínola <mspinola10 at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Dera list members,
>>>
>>> How to remove spaces among columns in a data frame.
>>>
>>> 1 2 3 4  to become 1234
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Manuel
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