On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 14:45 -0400, Guenther, Cameron wrote: > Hello, > > If I have two variables that are factors or characters and I want to > create a new variable that is the combination of both what function can > I use to accomplish this? > > Ex. > > Var1 Var2 > SA100055113 19851113 > > And I want > > NewVar > SA10005511319851113 > > Thanks in advance.
See ?paste and note the 'sep' argument: > NewVar <- paste(Var1, Var2, sep = "") > NewVar [1] "SA10005511319851113" HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
