R help - Sep 2011 - how to get the varifying character with two variables?

hi R user
mtdno<-paste("data",1:3,sep="")
tyno<-paste("obs",1:5,sep="")
flnm<-paste(mtdno,tyno,"_err.dat",sep="")

flnm  is
[1] "data1obs1_err.dat" "data2obs2_err.dat"
"data3obs3_err.dat"
[4] "data1obs4_err.dat" "data2obs5_err.dat"

but actually what i want is data from 1 to  3 and obs from 1 to 5. thus ,I
can read 15 files but not 5 files

how could I  do?
 thanks.
-- 
TANG Jie

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See ?outer (use paste as the function, as in one of the examples).

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Jie TANG wrote:
> hi R user
> mtdno<-paste("data",1:3,sep="")
> tyno<-paste("obs",1:5,sep="")
> flnm<-paste(mtdno,tyno,"_err.dat",sep="")
>
> flnm  is
> [1] "data1obs1_err.dat" "data2obs2_err.dat"
"data3obs3_err.dat"
> [4] "data1obs4_err.dat" "data2obs5_err.dat"
>
> but actually what i want is data from 1 to  3 and obs from 1 to 5. thus ,I
> can read 15 files but not 5 files
>
> how could I  do?
> thanks.
> -- 
> TANG Jie
>
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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thank you. it works.
but further question is that if we  can let the " flnm" to be a
2-dimension
matrix [3,5]?
since
mtdno<-paste("data",1:3,sep="")
tyno<-paste("obs",1:5,sep="")
flnm<-paste(mtdno,tyno,"_err.dat",sep="")
flnm would be a 1-dimension with 15 elements?

thankyou

2011/9/1 Jorge I Velez <jorgeivanvelez@gmail.com>
> Hi Jie,
>
> Try
>
> c(outer(mtdno, tyno, FUN = paste, "_err.dat", sep =
""))
>
> HTH,
> Jorge
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Jie TANG <> wrote:
>
>> hi R user
>> mtdno<-paste("data",1:3,sep="")
>> tyno<-paste("obs",1:5,sep="")
>> flnm<-paste(mtdno,tyno,"_err.dat",sep="")
>>
>> flnm  is
>> [1] "data1obs1_err.dat" "data2obs2_err.dat"
"data3obs3_err.dat"
>> [4] "data1obs4_err.dat" "data2obs5_err.dat"
>>
>> but actually what i want is data from 1 to  3 and obs from 1 to 5. thus
,I
>> can read 15 files but not 5 files
>>
>> how could I  do?
>>  thanks.
>> --
>> TANG Jie
>>
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>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>
>
>

-- 
TANG Jie
Email: totangjie@gmail.com
Tel: 0086-2154896104
Shanghai Typhoon Institute,China

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On Sep 1, 2011, at 3:45 AM, Jie TANG wrote:
> thank you. it works.
> but further question is that if we  can let the " flnm" to be a
2-
> dimension
> matrix [3,5]?
> since
> mtdno<-paste("data",1:3,sep="")
> tyno<-paste("obs",1:5,sep="")
> flnm<-paste(mtdno,tyno,"_err.dat",sep="")
> flnm would be a 1-dimension with 15 elements?
Just take out the c() call that converted the matrix from outer into a  
vector.

-- 
David
>
> thankyou
>
> 2011/9/1 Jorge I Velez <jorgeivanvelez at gmail.com>
>
>> Hi Jie,
>>
>> Try
>>
>> c(outer(mtdno, tyno, FUN = paste, "_err.dat", sep =
""))
>>
>> HTH,
>> Jorge
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Jie TANG <> wrote:
>>
>>> hi R user
>>> mtdno<-paste("data",1:3,sep="")
>>> tyno<-paste("obs",1:5,sep="")
>>> flnm<-paste(mtdno,tyno,"_err.dat",sep="")
>>>
>>> flnm  is
>>> [1] "data1obs1_err.dat" "data2obs2_err.dat"
"data3obs3_err.dat"
>>> [4] "data1obs4_err.dat" "data2obs5_err.dat"
>>>
>>> but actually what i want is data from 1 to  3 and obs from 1 to 5.
>>> thus ,I
>>> can read 15 files but not 5 files
>>>
>>> how could I  do?
>>> thanks.
>>> --
>>> TANG Jie
>>>
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>>>
>>> ______________________________________________
>>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
>>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> TANG Jie
> Email: totangjie at gmail.com
> Tel: 0086-2154896104
> Shanghai Typhoon Institute,China
>
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>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT