[R] string concatenation

Duncan Murdoch
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:51:17 -0000

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.)

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> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 6:27 AM Jiefei Wang <szwjf08 at gmail.com>
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>> Hi John,
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>> Try paste0(x,collapse = ", ")
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>> Best,
>> Jiefei
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>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 1:16 PM John <miaojpm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a sequence of characters:
>>>
>>> x <- c("Alice", "Bob", "Charles")
>>>
>>> How can I produce the following results:
>>>
>>> "Alice, Bob, Charles"
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> paste? merge?
>>>
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