Thanks for both comments. Indeed the sep = "" is needed.
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Rolf Turner <rolf.tur...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> On 10/10/11 04:53, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
> Try this:
>>
>> for (i in 1990:2009) {
>> varName = paste("pci", i, collapse = "")
>> assign(varName, log(get(varName))
>> }
>>
>> <SNIP>
>
> I believe that ``sep= " '' is needed here rather than collapse.
>
> Try:
> paste("junk",42,collapse="")
>
> You get
>
> [1] "junk 42"
>
> with a space in it. Here paste is using the default value of sep, namely "
> ",
> and is not using collapse at all, since there is nothing to collapse (the
> value is a scalar to start with).
>
> Whereas
>
> paste("junk",42,sep="")
>
> gives
>
> [1] "junk42"
>
> which is what is wanted.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf Turner
>
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