On 03/14/2011 08:29 PM, Maas James Dr (MED) wrote:
Is there a way to convince R to create a character vector without using the 
quotes?

This works

ex1<-  c("first","second")

but when I try this it doesn't

ext<- as.character(c(first,second))

it complains. I have many variables to put into character vectors so dispensing 
with the quotes would be useful.

Hi Jim,
If you are reading values in from a file, you can get character vectors like this:

<contents of file "charvec.txt">
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

charvec<-unlist(read.table("charvec.txt",stringsAsFactors=FALSE))
is.character(charvec)

Jim

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