R help - Jan 2004 - empty string

Hi!

How to generate a empty string of a precise length without using a loop?



I need a empty string  (char **) to pass  it with .C function to a c dll. The c
routine writes the result into the string.


Eryk.

Dipl. bio-chem. Eryk Witold Wolski    @    MPI-MG Dep. Vertebrate Genomics
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Wolski wrote:
> Hi!
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> How to generate a empty string of a precise length without using a loop?
paste(rep(" ",n), collapse="")

gives a string of n spaces.

	-thomas

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> I need a empty string (char **) to pass it with .C function to a c dll.
> The c routine writes the result into the string.
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> Eryk.
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> Dipl. bio-chem. Eryk Witold Wolski    @    MPI-MG Dep. Vertebrate Genomics
> Ihnestrasse 73 14195 Berlin          'v'
> tel: 0049-30-84131285               /   \
> mail: wolski at molgen.mpg.de        ---W-W----   
http://www.molgen.mpg.de/~wolski
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