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.