Eric Elguero wrote:
> is there a way to pass a vector to a function
> expecting separate arguments?
In general you can probably do something using
do.call(FUN,as.list(v))
where ``v'' is your vector.
> more specifically, I have a character vector, say u
> and I want a single string, but
> >paste(u)
> doesn't work
Yes it does if you do it right. Read the help
on paste(). (Hint: There's an argument ``collapse''.)
> so I would like something like
> >paste(unvector(u)).
>
> I am interested in a solution to the general problem too,
> as the only one I found is maintaining two versions of the
> functions I write.
> v <- 1:3
> do.call("paste",as.list(v))
[1] "1 2 3"
works, but this amounts to playing an unnecessary
game of ring-around-the-rosy.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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