FWIW {stringi} has %+% for this functionality (and I occasionally use
it), tho I do enough processing of quite ughly string content that I
pretty much always have {stringi} loaded. That may not be true for
many other folks.On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 2:07 PM Grant McDermott <grant...@uoregon.edu> wrote: > > Sorry I haven't had a chance to reply to anyone. I feel like I dropped a > grenade in a room and promptly bolted... > > Just to say, then, that I really appreciate everyone's comments and > suggestions. While I'm tempted to push back on some points, I don't think > it's worth on balance, or will add much beyond what's already been said. > > It's interesting to see that there appears to be at least some appetite for > additional (f)string operators in base R... notwithstanding the valid > objections and the difficulties raised in this thread. > > Cheers, > Grant > > Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> > ________________________________ > From: Grant McDermott > Sent: Saturday, December 4, 2021 12:36:44 PM > To: r-devel@r-project.org <r-devel@r-project.org> > Subject: string concatenation operator (revisited) > > Hi all, > > I wonder if the R Core team might reconsider an old feature request, as > detailed in this 2005 thread: > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-February/thread.html#66698 > > The TL;DR version is base R support for a `+.character` method. This would > essentially provide a shortcut to `paste0`, in much the same way that `\(x)` > now provides a shortcut to `function(x)`. > > > a = "hello "; b = "world" > > a + b > > [1] "hello world" > > I appreciate some of the original concerns raised against a native "string1 + > string2" implementation. The above thread also provides several > use-at-your-own-risk workarounds. But sixteen years is a long time in > software development and R now stands as something of an exception on this > score. Python, Julia, Stata, and SQL (among various others) all support > native string concatenation/interpolation using binary/arithmetic operators. > It's been a surprising source of frustration for students in some of the > classes I teach, particularly those coming from another language. > > Many thanks for considering. > > PS. I hope I didn't miss any additional discussion of this issue beyond the > original 2005 thread. My search efforts didn't turn anything else up, except > this popular Stackoverflow question: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4730551/making-a-string-concatenation-operator-in-r > > Grant McDermott > Assistant Professor > Department of Economics > University of Oregon > www.grantmcdermott.com > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
