> On Oct 19, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > > When I replace length with nchar, it works fine for me without mapply. > > substr( rep( s, nchar(s) ), 1, seq.int( nchar(s) ) )
I failed to make the second `nchar` -> `length` substitution. It now works for me as well. -- David > -- > 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 > David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.
