Many thanks.
The "still untested" worked.
Cheers
Ed
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:23 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote:
>
> On Aug 19, 2011, at 10:21 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
>
>> On Aug 19, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Eduardo Mendes wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>>
>>> Many thanks.
>>>
>>> * is not a typo. The output is a description of a nonlinear system so
>>> terms such as y(k-1)*y(k-2) are allowed. I wonder whether "" could be
>>> ignored so that the outputs such as y_{01}(k-003)* would not show up.
>>>
>>> Paste with "*" then remove trailing "*"'s:
>>
>> ifelse( grepl("*$", result), sub("*","", result), result)
>>
>
> Rather (but still untested)
>
>
> ifelse( grepl("\\*$", result), sub("\\*","", result), result)
>
> --
> david.
>
>>
>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Ed
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:40 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 18, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Eduardo Mendes wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear R-Users
>>>
>>> I have the following matrix
>>>
>>> out$desc [,1] [,2]
>>> [1,] "" ""
>>> [2,] "y_{01}(k-001)" ""
>>> [3,] "y_{01}(k-002)" ""
>>> [4,] "y_{01}(k-003)" ""
>>> [5,] "u_{01}(k-001)" ""
>>> [6,] "u_{01}(k-002)" ""
>>> [7,] "u_{01}(k-003)" ""
>>> [8,] "y_{01}(k-001)" "y_{01}(k-001)"
>>> [9,] "y_{01}(k-001)" "y_{01}(k-002)"
>>> [10,] "y_{01}(k-001)" "y_{01}(k-003)"
>>> [11,] "y_{01}(k-001)" "u_{01}(k-001)"
>>>
>>>
>>> and need to concatenate each line to a single string. Something like
>>>
>>> [2,] "y_{01}(k-001)" "" -> [2,] "y_{01}(k-001)"
>>>
>>> [11,] "y_{01}(k-001)" "u_{01}(k-001)" -> [11,]
>>> "y_{01}(k-001)*u_{01}(k-001)"
>>>
>>> Is there a way to do it without going through every column?
>>>
>>> apply(out$desc, 1, paste, collapse="")
>>>
>>> It is ambiguous what you want for a delimiter. In one case you used "",
>>> and another you used "*". I used "".
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> David Winsemius, MD
>>> West Hartford, CT
>>>
>>>
>>>
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