When I replace length with nchar, it works fine for me without mapply. substr( rep( s, nchar(s) ), 1, seq.int( nchar(s) ) ) -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On October 19, 2016 9:36:25 AM PDT, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> On Oct 19, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Jeff Newmiller ><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: >> >> These don't look like "suffixes" to me, but whatever. >> >> s <- "abc" >> substr( rep( s, length(s) ), 1, seq.int( length(s) ) ) > >I suspect that `nchar` was meant instead of `length` but it still >failed. How about: > >lets <- paste0(letters,collapse=TRUE) >unname( mapply( substr, lets, 1, 1:26) ) # mapply will recycle ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
