Re: [R] Create new string of same length as entry in dataframe

Simple, but was taking me a long time to google. Thanks Phil, happy Thanksgiving. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Create-new-string-of-same-length-as-entry-in-dataframe-tp3058232p3058275.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [R] Create new string of same length as entry in dataframe

Suppose you want to replace using all b's: thestring = 'bb' t2$V3 = substring(thestring,1,t2$V2) t2$V3 [1] "bbb""" "bb" "b" "bb" For the second case, thestring = paste(rep('bad',5),collapse='') thestring [1] "badbadbadbadbad" t2$V3 = substring(the

[R] Create new string of same length as entry in dataframe

I suspect that this is simple, but thanks in advance for any advice... I have a dataframe, t2: V1 V2 aaa 3 4 aa6 a1 aa 2 V2 is the length of the string in V1 using nchar(as.character(t1$V1)) I'd like to create a third column, that cont