[R] easy way of paste

[Yuan, Rebecca]

Hello Sarah,

Yes, that is what I want.

Thanks!

Cheers,

Rebecca

-----Original Message-----
From: Sarah Goslee [mailto:sarah.goslee at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:21 AM
To: Yuan, Rebecca
Cc: R help
Subject: Re: [R] easy way of paste

It looks like you want collapse rather than sep:

> list.indep <- data.frame(aa=1:4, dummy1=1:4, dummy2=1:4, bb=1:4, 
> cc=1:4) paste(colnames(list.indep), collapse="+")
[1] "aa+dummy1+dummy2+bb+cc"

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Yuan, Rebecca <rebecca.yuan at bankofamerica.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a better way to use paste such as:
>
> a = 
> paste(colnames(list.indep)[1],colnames(list.indep)[2],colnames(list.in
> dep)[3],colnames(list.indep)[4],colnames(list.indep)[5],sep="+")
>
>
>
>> a
>
> [1] "aa+dummy1+dummy2+bb+cc"
>
>
>
> I tried
>
>
>
> a = paste(colnames(list.indep)[1:5],sep="+")
>
>
>
>> a
>
> [1] "aa" "dummy1"             "dummy2"              "bb"                   "cc"
>
> But it will not give me the way I want.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rebecca
>
>


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