John Miyamoto
2003-Apr-03 19:25 UTC
[R] Thanks re Combining the components of a character vector
Many people pointed out that the 'collapse' argument yields the solution to my query:> x <- c("Bob", "loves", "Sally") > paste(x, collapse=" ")[1] "Bob loves Sally" I had looked at the documentation for 'paste' within R and also in several books before sending my question to R-Help, so I was aware of the 'collapse' argument, but I was making the mistake of abbreviating 'collapse':> paste(x, col=" ")[1] "Bob " "loves " "Sally " The real source of my confusion was that I wasn't aware that arguments following '...' must be fully specified. Now I know that this is important. Thanks for the help. John -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Miyamoto, Dept. of Psychology, Box 351525 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1525 Phone 206-543-0805, Fax 206-685-3157, Email jmiyamot at u.washington.edu Homepage http://faculty.washington.edu/jmiyamot/ --------------------------------------------------------------------