thanks so much, this did the trick! Jill
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > Try this which assumes that comma does not appear in any of the strings. > You can substitute a different non-appearing character if a comma does > appear in any of the strings: > > strsplit(gsub("string,", "string", paste(vec, collapse = ",")), ",")[[1]] > > It first runs all the strings together into a single comma-separate string > using paste and then replaces each occurrence of "string," with "string" > using gsub. Finally it breaks the long string back up into individual > strings using strsplit. > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Jill Hollenbach > <jil...@sbcglobal.net>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I would like to combine elements of a vector: >> >> vec <- c("astring", "b", "cstring", "d", "e") >> > vec >> [1] "astring" "b" "cstring" "d" "e" >> >> such that for every element that contains "string" at the end, it is >> combined with the next element, so that I get this: >> >> > res >> [1] "astringb" "cstringd" "e" >> >> Any help is much appreciated, still learning. >> >> Many thanks, >> Jill >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________________________ >> Jill Hollenbach, PhD, MPH >> Associate Staff Scientist >> Center for Genetics >> Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute >> jhollenb...@chori.org >> skype: jillah11 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/paste-adjacent-elements-matching-string-tp949036p949111.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.