> li <- list(1, 2, 3) > li [[1]] [1] 1 [[2]] [1] 2
[[3]] [1] 3 > paste(unlist(li), collapse=" ") [1] "1 2 3" > length( paste(unlist(li), collapse=" ") ) [1] 1 -- Adaikalavan Ramasamy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Brown Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 1:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] Collapsing Arrays/Lists to scalar values This is probably an easy question. I want to join the elements of a list/array into a single scalar value. How can I do this? More Background: I have sql queries stored in external flat text files. When I read these queries into R using the normal functions, I get a list where each line is an element in the list. When I try to pass this to the appropriate RODBC function, I get an errror. The function expects a scalar value for the query text. Someone must have run into this problem before. So thanks in advance for the help. Chris. Christopher Brown --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
