Okay, thank you all for your reply. In SAS it doesn't do that way, so I was bit confused. Anyways thanks all.
Cheers. On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:37 PM, PIKAL Petr <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> wrote: > Hi > > as Jeff said you cannot without modifying source code for paste. > > If your problem is as you expressed it you can do e.g. > > paste(S, append(X, rep(NA, length(S)-length(X)))) > > Cheers > Petr > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Preeti > > ranjan Pradhan > > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 12:43 AM > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: [R] How to Turn OFF Vectors Recycling Rule in Paste() > > > > Hello Team, > > > > Platform:Windows 7 32-bit > > R Version:3.2.2 > > > > I have two vectors as follows > > > > > S = c("aa", "bb", "cc", "dd", "ee") > > > X= c("aa", "bb", "cc", "dd") > > > > When I trying a paste function > > > > > z=paste(S,X) > > > z > > > > I am getting result as > > > > [1] "aa aa" "bb bb" "cc cc" "dd dd" "ee aa" > > > > I don't need the last element of S vector should get concatenated with > > first element of X vector rather than it should take a space or null > > value for concatenation. 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