... and you can of course do the assignment: Bndy <- paste (BndY,"to",50+seq_len(BndY), "mN", sep = " ")
"An Introduction to R" tells you about such fundamentals and should be a first read for anyone learning R. --- Bert On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Bert Gunter <bgun...@gene.com> wrote: > Don't do this! paste() is vectorized. > > paste (BndY,"to",50+seq_len(BndY), "mN", sep = " ") > > Cheers, > Bert > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:31 PM, B77S <bps0...@auburn.edu> wrote: >> out <- vector("list") >> Ylab <- for(i in 1:length(BndY)) >> { >> out[i] <- paste(BndY[i]," to ",BndY[i],"mN") >> } >> >> Ylab <- do.call(c, out) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> markm0705 wrote >>> >>> Dear R helpers >>> >>> I'm trying to make up some labels for plot from this vector >>> >>> BndY<-seq(from = 18900,to= 19700, by = 50) >>> >>> using >>> >>> Ylab<-for(i in BndY) {c((paste(i," to ",i+50,"mN")))} >>> >>> but the vector created is NULL >>> >>> However if i use >>> >>> for(i in BndY) {print(c(paste(i," to ",i+50,"mN")))} >>> >>> I can see the for loop is making the labels I'm looking for but not sure >>> on my error in assigning them to a vector >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Looping-and-paste-tp4101892p4102066.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > > -- > > Bert Gunter > Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics > > Internal Contact Info: > Phone: 467-7374 > Website: > http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm > -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.