Re: [R] split list of characters in groups of 2

2011-11-17 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Here's one way: apply(matrix(var.names, ncol = 2, byrow = TRUE), 1, function(x) paste(x[1], x[2], sep = ',')) [1] a,b c,d e,f HTH, Dennis On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:46 PM, B77S bps0...@auburn.edu wrote: hi, If i have a list of things, like this var.names - c(a, b, c, d, e, f) how can

Re: [R] split list of characters in groups of 2

2011-11-17 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 17.11.2011 10:31, Dennis Murphy wrote: Hi: Here's one way: apply(matrix(var.names, ncol = 2, byrow = TRUE), 1, function(x) paste(x[1], x[2], sep = ',')) [1] a,b c,d e,f Or for short and slightly faster for huge data use column-wise operations as in: apply(matrix(var.names, nrow=2),

[R] split list of characters in groups of 2

2011-11-16 Thread B77S
hi, If i have a list of things, like this var.names - c(a, b, c, d, e, f) how can i get this: a, b, c, d, e, f thanks ahead of time. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/split-list-of-characters-in-groups-of-2-tp4079031p4079031.html Sent from the R help mailing