paste(text, collapse = " ") Michael
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:41 PM, mdvaan <mathijsdev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. I get the latter part, but reading the text > from MS word into R is problematic. I am able to read in (scan) all unique > elements (following sep=" ") from the text, but unable to past everything > together again. Any id on how to solve this? It looks like this now: > > text<-scan("test.txt", character(0), sep = " ") > >> text > [1] "Most" "fundamentally," "it" "has" > [5] "led" "to" "an" "effort" > [9] "to" "clarify" "the" "organizational" > [13] "form" "concept." "According" "to" > [17] "them" "[see" "also" "Smith," > [21] "Jones" "and" "Carroll" "2002]," > [25] "categories" "emerge" "as" "audience" > [29] "members" "recognize" "dissimilarities" "among" > [33] "groups" "of" "consumers" "and" > [37] "label" "them" "as" "members" > [41] "of" "a" "common" "set" > [45] "[Nicol" "2000]." > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Select-elements-from-text-tp4323947p4325174.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. ______________________________________________ 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.