On 17.11.2011 10:31, Dennis Murphy wrote:
Hi: Here's one way: apply(matrix(var.names, ncol = 2, byrow = TRUE), 1, function(x) paste(x[1], x[2], sep = ',')) [1] "a,b" "c,d" "e,f"
Or for short and slightly faster for huge data use column-wise operations as in:
apply(matrix(var.names, nrow=2), 2, paste, collapse=", ") Best, Uwe Ligges
HTH, Dennis On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:46 PM, B77S<bps0...@auburn.edu> wrote:hi, If i have a list of things, like this var.names<- c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f") how can i get this: "a, b", "c, d", "e, f" thanks ahead of time. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/split-list-of-characters-in-groups-of-2-tp4079031p4079031.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.______________________________________________ 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.
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