Dear Sirs, Thanks a lot for your guidance. It worked wonderfully. Regards Madhavi
--- On Wed, 10/2/10, Ivan Calandra <ivan.calan...@uni-hamburg.de> wrote: From: Ivan Calandra <ivan.calan...@uni-hamburg.de> Subject: Re: [R] How to repeat the names? To: r-help@r-project.org Date: Wednesday, 10 February, 2010, 1:54 AM Hi! I'm kind of a newboe here, but I think it is because read.csv transforms the character variables to factors. Maybe try setting the argument "as.is" in read.csv(). Or try: rep(as.character(c(city1, city2)),5) That should work. HTH Ivan Le 2/10/2010 10:44, Madhavi Bhave a écrit : > Dear R helpers > > I have a city.csv file as given below. > > 'city.csv' > city_name1 city_name2 > New York City Buffallo > > So I define > > city_name = read.csv('city.csv') > city1 = city_name$city_name1 > city2 = city_name$city_name2 > > My problem is how do I repeat the names one after other say 10 times i.e. my > output should be like > > New York > City Buffallo > New York > City Buffallo > New York > City Buffallo > New York City > ................... > ................... > ................... > ................... > > I have tried the following commands > > rep(c(city1,city2), 5) > > and I got the output something like this > > [1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 ....... > > If I try > > rep((city1,city2), 5) > > Error: unexpected ',' in "rep((city1," > > Please guide > > Regards > > MAdhavi > > > Your Mail works best with the New Yahoo Optimized IE8. Get it NOW! >http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/ > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] -----Inline Attachment Follows----- ______________________________________________ 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. [[elided Yahoo spam]] [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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