On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Abhishek Pratap <abhishek....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Guys > > Getting spinned about a slick way to join every 2 entry in a list / vector > in R > > x=(rep(c('A','G','C','T'),1000)) > > A G C T A G C T etc > > form another list with entries as > AG CT AG etc
Not super slick but: by_two <- function(x, collapse = ""){ dim(x) <- c(length(x) / 2, 2) apply(x, 1, function(y) paste(y, collapse = collapse)) } Cheers, MW ______________________________________________ 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.