On 23-Dec-09 11:40:12, baptiste auguie wrote: > Isn't paste doing exactly this? > > temp <- c("November", "December","Monday","Tuesday") > paste(temp, collapse=",") ># "November,December,Monday,Tuesday" > > HTH, > baptiste
Yes, spot-on! I got involved in the confusion resulting from the use of "sep" in previous postings. I think that solves it for Knut! Ted. > 2009/12/23 Ted Harding <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk>: >> On 23-Dec-09 11:08:02, Knut Krueger wrote: >>> Jim Lemon schrieb: >>>> Not as easy as I thought it would be, but: >>>> >>>> mlist<-as.list(paste("m",1:sample(5:10,1),sep="")) >>>> do.call("paste",c(mlist,sep=",")) >>> >>> Hi Jim, >>> yes it works _:-) >>> >>> temp <- c("November", "December","Monday","Tuesday") >>> length(temp) #getting the length of the vector >>> string1=do.call("paste",c(as.list(temp),sep=",")) #converting to a >>> string >>> >>> but I have no idea where I could find that documentation ;-) >>> >>> Thanks a lot >>> Knut >> >> Interestingly, cat() does the pasting job in the simplest >> possible way: >> >>> temp <- c("November", "December","Monday","Tuesday") >>> cat(temp,sep=",") >> November,December,Monday,Tuesday> >> >> [copied from the R console; note the trialing ">" which is >> _the command prompt for the next input -- not part of the >> _output of cat() ] >> >> with output to screen (or to nominated file). But there >> seems to be no way to persuade cat to *return* this result >> as a value, which could be assigned to a variable. >> >> If there were such a way, that would be a very smooth solution! >> >> Ted. >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> >> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 >> Date: 23-Dec-09 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Time: 11:28:47 >> ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 23-Dec-09 Time: 11:57:19 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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.