cat() isn't doing what you think, and as.character()
is unnecessary here because paste() takes care of
that.
A couple of more elegant solutions have already
appeared, but here's one that parallels your version:
paste(c(
rep( ".", 2 ),
"a string",
rep( ".", 3 )),
collapse=" ")
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jeff Brown <dopethatwantsc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would expect the following:
>
> paste(
> as.character( cat( rep( ".", 2 ) ) ),
> "a string",
> as.character( cat( rep( ".", 3 ) ) )
> );
>
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