How can I string character variables? for example: a<- "str" b<- "ing" and i want c to be "string" how do I do that? -- _______________________________________________ Ulrich Leopold MSc. Dep. Phys. Geography and Soil Science Inst. for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics Faculty of Science University of Amsterdam Nieuwe Achtergracht 166 NL-1018 WV Amsterdam Phone: +31-(0)20-525-7456 (7451 Sectretary) Fax: +31-(0)20-525-7431 Email: uleopold at science.uva.nl http://www.frw.uva.nl/soil/Welcome.html
paste(a, b, sep = "") Cheers, Simon. Simon Blomberg, PhD Depression & Anxiety Consumer Research Unit Centre for Mental Health Research Australian National University http://www.anu.edu.au/cmhr/ Simon.Blomberg at anu.edu.au +61 (2) 6125 3379> -----Original Message----- > From: Ulrich Leopold [mailto:uleopold at science.uva.nl] > Sent: Thursday, 12 June 2003 5:28 AM > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] how to string characters? > > > How can I string character variables? > > for example: > a<- "str" > b<- "ing" > > and i want c to be "string" > how do I do that? > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > > Ulrich Leopold MSc. > > Dep. Phys. Geography and Soil Science > Inst. for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics > Faculty of Science > University of Amsterdam > Nieuwe Achtergracht 166 > NL-1018 WV Amsterdam > > Phone: +31-(0)20-525-7456 (7451 Sectretary) > Fax: +31-(0)20-525-7431 > Email: uleopold at science.uva.nl > http://www.frw.uva.nl/soil/Welcome.html > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >
In-R va.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Dear Ulrich, At 09:27 PM 6/11/2003 +0200, Ulrich Leopold wrote:>How can I string character variables? > >for example: >a<- "str" >b<- "ing" > >and i want c to be "string" >how do I do that?paste(a, b, sep="") will do what you want. John ----------------------------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 email: jfox at mcmaster.ca phone: 905-525-9140x23604 web: www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox