Robert
I ended up using the paste command, its not pretty but it works thank you Jeff From: Robert Knight <bobby.kni...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 3:56 PM To: reichm...@sbcglobal.net Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] How to pass a character string with a hyphen Strip the left characters and strip the right characters into their own variables using one of the methods that can do that. Then pass it using something like paste(left, "-", right). On Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 2:43 PM Jeff Reichman <reichm...@sbcglobal.net <mailto:reichm...@sbcglobal.net> > wrote: R-Help How does one pass a character string containing a hyphen? I have a function that accesses an api if I hard code the object, for example key_key <- "xxxx-yyyy" it works but when I pass the key code to the function (say something like key_code <- code_input) it returns only xxxx. So R is seeing a string with a negative operator I'm assuming Jeff [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
