[R] string concatenation

Jiefei Wang
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:53:00 -0000

Hi,

Thanks for clarifying, there is no quote in the result. The quote in the
output is just R's way to tell you that the variable got printed is a
string. If you add quotes around a string, it will get printed like

"\"Alice, Bob, Charles\""

I hope this helps.

Best,
Jiefei

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 6:51 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at
gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 05/11/2020 3:20 a.m., Edjabou Vincent wrote:
> > Following John request, I am wondering if it is possible to get this
> result:
> >
> > Alice, Bob, Charles (without bracket )
>
> I think you mean "without the quotes".  Use noquote():
>
>    noquote(paste0(x,collapse = ", "))
>
> will print without quotes.  (Internally the data is the same, but a
> class attribute is added that tells print() not to add quotes.)
>
> Duncan Murdoch
> >
> > Thank you for your help
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> > On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 6:27 AM Jiefei Wang <szwjf08 at
gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi John,
> >>
> >> Try paste0(x,collapse = ", ")
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Jiefei
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 1:16 PM John <miaojpm at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I have a sequence of characters:
> >>>
> >>> x <- c("Alice", "Bob",
"Charles")
> >>>
> >>> How can I produce the following results:
> >>>
> >>> "Alice, Bob, Charles"
> >>>
> >>> ?
> >>>
> >>> paste? merge?
> >>>
> >>> Thank you very much!
> >>>
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