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Hi all, I have a vector of strings and need to count the number of times a string appears in the vector. eg: [1] spp6 spp10 spp6 spp6 spp4 spp2 spp9 spp10 spp5 spp2 spp2 spp3 [13] spp4 spp3 spp6 spp10 spp6 spp4 spp9 spp3 spp6 spp1 spp10 spp8 [25] spp2 spp10 spp9 spp7 spp1 spp3 spp8 spp6 spp3 spp8 spp6 spp5 [37] spp5 spp9 spp3 spp1 spp4 spp5 spp9 spp3 spp3 spp5 spp4 spp9 [49] spp3 spp7 spp7 spp2 spp6 spp5 spp7...

Dear list, given this formula: > fmla <- formula(y1 ~ spp1 + spp2 + spp3 + spp5) > fmla[[3]] spp1 + spp2 + spp3 + spp5 is this the intended behaviour of as.character: > as.character(fmla[[3]]) [1] "+" "spp1 + spp2 + spp3" "spp5" ? Where does the extra "+" come from? > as.character(fmla) [1] "~"...