Hi, Thanks for clarifying, there is no quote in the result. The quote in the output is just R's way to tell you that the variable got printed is a string. If you add quotes around a string, it will get printed like
"\"Alice, Bob, Charles\"" I hope this helps. Best, Jiefei On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 6:51 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.) > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > Thank you for your help > > > > > > > > Med venlig hilsen/ Best regards > > > > Vincent Edjabou > > Mobile: +45 31 95 99 33 > > linkedin.com/vincent > > <http://linkedin.com/in/vincent-maklawe-edjabou-9742a41b> > > > > Orcid: 0000-0003-2849-6151 > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 6:27 AM Jiefei Wang <szwj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi John, > >> > >> Try paste0(x,collapse = ", ") > >> > >> Best, > >> Jiefei > >> > >> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 1:16 PM John <miao...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I have a sequence of characters: > >>> > >>> x <- c("Alice", "Bob", "Charles") > >>> > >>> How can I produce the following results: > >>> > >>> "Alice, Bob, Charles" > >>> > >>> ? > >>> > >>> paste? merge? > >>> > >>> Thank you very much! > >>> > >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >>> > >>> ______________________________________________ > >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >>> 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. > >>> > >> > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >> 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. > >> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
