You could try

scan(what=character(0), sep=",", file=textConnection("first,second,third"))


but better to put the strings in a file (say, strings.txt), one per line, and read it using

scan("strings.txt", what=character(0), sep="\n")


Even better is to understand what you are really trying to do and we can maybe help with that.

Hope this helps a little


Allan
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On 14/03/11 09:29, 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.

Thanks

Jim


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University of East Anglia


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