Jim, I don't know if this is the most elegant solution :
Copy the following to your clipboard (some editors will require also to take last paragraph mark) first second third > ## now go to R and use > dat <- read.table("clipboard") # will give data.frame > dat V1 1 first 2 second 3 third > ## or if you want a character-vector > dat <- as.character(as.matrix(read.table("clipboard"))) > dat [1] "first" "second" "third" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wolfgang Raffelsberger, PhD IGBMC, 1 rue Laurent Fries, 67404 Illkirch Strasbourg, France Tel (+33) 388 65 3300 Fax (+33) 388 65 3276 wolfgang.raffelsber...@igbmc.fr ________________________________________ De : r-help-boun...@r-project.org [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] de la part de Maas James Dr (MED) [j.m...@uea.ac.uk] Date d'envoi : lundi 14 mars 2011 10:29 À : r-help@r-project.org Objet : [R] creating character vector 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. Thanks Jim =============================== Dr. Jim Maas University of East Anglia [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.