On 5/23/20 17:45, Gabriel Becker wrote:
Maybe my intuition is just different but when I collapse multiple character vectors together, I expect all the characters from each of those vectors to be in the resulting collapsed one.
Yes I'd expect that too. But the **collapse** operation in paste() has never been about collapsing **multiple** character vectors together. What it does is collapse the **single** character vector that comes out of the 'sep' operation.
So paste(x, y, z, sep="", collapse=",") is analogous to sum(x + y + z) The element-wise addition is analog to the 'sep' operation. The sum() operation is analog to the 'collapse' operation. H. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
