On 03-Jul-08 01:25:55, Philip James Smith wrote: > Hi R Community: > I've got a character string that looks like: New Mexico > > How to I create the new character string that looks like: "New Mexico" > That is, it is the original string (New Mexico) with double quotes > infront and behind it? > > Thanks, > Phil Smith
I tried the following. Is that the sort of thing you want to achieve? X<-"New Mexico" Y<-"\"New Mexico\"" X # [1] "New Mexico" Y # [1] "\"New Mexico\"" plot((1:10),xlab=X,ylab=Y) Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 03-Jul-08 Time: 09:22:10 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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.