Hello A.K., Thanks! I use collapse instead of sep and get the answer.
Cheers, Rebecca -----Original Message----- From: arun [mailto:smartpink...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:21 AM To: Yuan, Rebecca Cc: R help Subject: Re: [R] easy way of paste dat2<-as.data.frame(matrix(1:20,ncol=5)) colnames(dat2)<- c("aa","dummy1","dummy2","bb","cc") paste(colnames(dat2),collapse="+") #[1] "aa+dummy1+dummy2+bb+cc" A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yuan, Rebecca" <rebecca.y...@bankofamerica.com> To: R help <r-help@r-project.org> Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:15 AM Subject: [R] easy way of paste Hello, Is there a better way to use paste such as: a = paste(colnames(list.indep)[1],colnames(list.indep)[2],colnames(list.indep)[3],colnames(list.indep)[4],colnames(list.indep)[5],sep="+") > a [1] "aa+dummy1+dummy2+bb+cc" I tried a = paste(colnames(list.indep)[1:5],sep="+") > a [1] "aa" "dummy1" "dummy2" "bb" "cc" But it will not give me the way I want. Thanks, Rebecca ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments, is for the intended r...{{dropped:15}} ______________________________________________ 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.
