Re: [R] string question
Paul -
When you print a string, it escapes the quotes with a
backslash. That's a property of the print() function,
not the string itself.
If you want to see the string, use cat(). The nchar()
function is also useful:
str1 - 'xyz'
qr2 - paste('abc',str1,sep='')
print(qr2)
[1] abc\xyz\
cat(qr2,'\n')
abcxyz
nchar(qr2)
[1] 8
- Phil Spector
Statistical Computing Facility
Department of Statistics
UC Berkeley
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On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Paul Evans wrote:
Hi,
How can I get double quotes embedded in the string?
Example:
--
str1 - 'xyz'
## desired output
# abcxyz
qr2 - paste('abc',str1,sep='')
print(qr2)
-
Actual output:
[1] abc\str\
I also tried putting an escape sequence before the quote, but couldn't get the
string that I want.
thanks,
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Re: [R] string question
cat() is probably what you want, but note that print()
has a 'quote=' argument that you could set to FALSE:
print(qr2, quote = FALSE)
See ?print.default
-Peter Ehlers
On 2010-06-30 13:16, Phil Spector wrote:
Paul -
When you print a string, it escapes the quotes with a backslash. That's
a property of the print() function,
not the string itself.
If you want to see the string, use cat(). The nchar()
function is also useful:
str1 - 'xyz'
qr2 - paste('abc',str1,sep='')
print(qr2)
[1] abc\xyz\
cat(qr2,'\n')
abcxyz
nchar(qr2)
[1] 8
- Phil Spector
Statistical Computing Facility
Department of Statistics
UC Berkeley
spec...@stat.berkeley.edu
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Paul Evans wrote:
Hi,
How can I get double quotes embedded in the string?
Example:
--
str1 - 'xyz'
## desired output
# abcxyz
qr2 - paste('abc',str1,sep='')
print(qr2)
-
Actual output:
[1] abc\str\
I also tried putting an escape sequence before the quote, but couldn't
get the
string that I want.
thanks,
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Re: [R] string question
You can try noquote also:
noquote(paste('abc', 'xyz', sep = ))
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Paul Evans p.evan...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
How can I get double quotes embedded in the string?
Example:
--
str1 - 'xyz'
## desired output
# abcxyz
qr2 - paste('abc',str1,sep='')
print(qr2)
-
Actual output:
[1] abc\str\
I also tried putting an escape sequence before the quote, but couldn't get
the
string that I want.
thanks,
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Re: [R] String question
Knut Krueger wrote: Will this do? temp - paste(m, 1:3, sep=,collapse=,) Unfortunately not, because I explained the example not detailed enough. The string could have different Items, like November, December, Monday, Tuesday, Daylight and so on Therefore I must count the Items of the string separated by , or change the vector to a string The right hint was there, I think: paste(c(m1,m2,m3),collapse=,) [1] m1,m2,m3 -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~ - (p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 __ 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.
Re: [R] String question
Will this do? temp - paste(m, 1:3, sep=,collapse=,) HTH, baptiste 2009/12/23 Knut Krueger r...@krueger-family.de: Hi to all I need a string like temp - paste(m1,m2,m3,sep=,) But i must know how many items are in the string,afterwards the other option would be to use a vector temp - c(m1,m2,m3) No problem to get the count of items but I must get afterwards the string m1,m2,m3 No problem to build the string with a loop, but it should be more easy but it seems that I am looking to the wrong functions. Kind regards Knut __ 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.
Re: [R] String question
Will this do? temp - paste(m, 1:3, sep=,collapse=,) Unfortunately not, because I explained the example not detailed enough. The string could have different Items, like November, December, Monday, Tuesday, Daylight and so on Therefore I must count the Items of the string separated by , or change the vector to a string Thanks for your reply Knut __ 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.
Re: [R] String question
On 12/23/2009 09:21 PM, Knut Krueger wrote: Hi to all I need a string like temp - paste(m1,m2,m3,sep=,) But i must know how many items are in the string,afterwards the other option would be to use a vector temp - c(m1,m2,m3) No problem to get the count of items but I must get afterwards the string m1,m2,m3 No problem to build the string with a loop, but it should be more easy but it seems that I am looking to the wrong functions. Hi Knut, 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=,)) Jim __ 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.
Re: [R] String question
Hi r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 23.12.2009 11:46:31: Will this do? temp - paste(m, 1:3, sep=,collapse=,) Unfortunately not, because I explained the example not detailed enough. The string could have different Items, like November, December, Monday, Tuesday, Daylight and so on Therefore I must count the Items of the string separated by , or change the vector to a string like that? x - c(asfef, qwerty, yuiop[, b, stuff.blah.yech) paste(x, seq_along(x), sep=.) Regards Petr Thanks for your reply Knut __ 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.
Re: [R] String question
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 __ 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.
Re: [R] String question
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.
Re: [R] String question
Isn't paste doing exactly this? temp - c(November, December,Monday,Tuesday) paste(temp, collapse=,) # November,December,Monday,Tuesday HTH, baptiste 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.
Re: [R] String question
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.
Re: [R] String question
Hi Baptiste, Isn't paste doing exactly this? yes indeed - surprising temp - c(November, December,Monday,Tuesday) paste(temp, collapse=,) paste(temp, sep=,) I tried to use sep :-( Arguments |...| one or more *R* objects, to be converted to character vectors. |sep| a character string to separate the terms. Not |NA_character_ cid:part1.05050004.04080404@krueger-family.de|. |collapse| an optional character string to separate the results. Not |NA_character_ cid:part1.05050004.04080404@krueger-family.de|. and I did not realize that I separated the wrong part ... Kind regards Knut __ 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.
Re: [R] String question
Hi r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 23.12.2009 12:08:02: 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 Isn't it same like paste(temp, collapse=,) [1] November,December,Monday,Tuesday I also thought you actually wanted paste(paste(temp, seq_along(temp), sep=.), collapse=,) [1] November.1,December.2,Monday.3,Tuesday.4 Regards Petr but I have no idea where I could find that documentation ;-) Thanks a lot Knut __ 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.
Re: [R] String question
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Knut Krueger r...@krueger-family.de wrote: Hi to all I need a string like temp - paste(m1,m2,m3,sep=,) But i must know how many items are in the string,afterwards the other option would be to use a vector temp - c(m1,m2,m3) No problem to get the count of items but I must get afterwards the string m1,m2,m3 No problem to build the string with a loop, but it should be more easy but it seems that I am looking to the wrong functions. Kind regards Knut Just thought I'd show you a solution from the other direction, in addition to those that all other have posted: temp - paste(m1,m2,m3,sep=,)##Generate string nchar(gsub(([^,]),,temp))+1## Count commas in the string and add 1. Regards, Gustaf -- Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci. tel: +46(0)703 051 451 address:Essingetorget 40,112 66 Stockholm, SE skype:gustaf_rydevik __ 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.
