What about 'concat', 'cat', or 'concatenate'? The function concatenates vectors, and 'concat' and 'cat' are well-known short forms of the word. (The Unix program 'cat' is so-named because it concatenates text files.)
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Walter Mascarenhas < [email protected]> wrote: > Romain, > > what about "join"? > > walter. > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Andreas Alfons < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Romain, >> >> "bind" may be confusing to R users, because "cbind" and "rbind" exist >> in R and return matrices. In my opinion, "combine" is a better option. >> >> - Andreas >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Romain Francois >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'd like to add a functionality to "bind" vectors of the same type (well >> > sugar expressions really, but let's say it is vectors for the sake of >> > this email). >> > >> > So essentially I'd like something similar to what "c" does in R : >> > >> > > c( letters, letters ) >> > [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "i" "j" "k" "l" "m" "n" "o" "p" >> > "q" "r" "s" >> > [20] "t" "u" "v" "w" "x" "y" "z" "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "i" "j" >> > "k" "l" >> > [39] "m" "n" "o" "p" "q" "r" "s" "t" "u" "v" "w" "x" "y" "z" >> > >> > >> > I don't want to call it "c", and I'd like suggestions : combine, bind ? >> > >> > The idea is to avoid writing code like this: >> > >> > CharacterVector x, y ; >> > CharacterVector z( x.size() + y.size() ) ; >> > int i=0; >> > for( ; i<x.size(); i++) z[i] = x[i] ; >> > for( int j=0; j<y.size(); i++, j++) z[i] = y[j] ; >> > >> > I know it is not a big deal for people to write this code, but for >> > example this does not handle the names of the elements, ... and >> > internally I can use more efficient code >> > >> > Romain >> > >> > -- >> > Romain Francois >> > Professional R Enthusiast >> > +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 >> > >> > R Graph Gallery: http://gallery.r-enthusiasts.com >> > >> > blog: http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr >> > |- http://bit.ly/RE6sYH : OOP with Rcpp modules >> > `- http://bit.ly/Thw7IK : Rcpp modules more flexible >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Rcpp-devel mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel >> >> >> >> -- >> Andreas Alfons >> Faculty of Business and Economics, KU Leuven >> www.econ.kuleuven.be/andreas.alfons/public/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Rcpp-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel >
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