... or simply > paste0(c("A","B","C"), c(1,2,3)) [1] "A1" "B2" "C3"
See ?paste for other useful options. Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 1:26 PM Parkhurst, David <parkh...@indiana.edu> wrote: > Thank you. > > From: Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu> > Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 4:21 PM > To: Parkhurst, David <parkh...@indiana.edu>, r-help@r-project.org < > r-help@r-project.org> > Subject: Re: [External] [R] Concatenation? > > paste(c("A","B","C"), c(1,2,3), sep="") > [1] "A1" "B2" "C3" > > in your example > paste(site, depth, sep="") > > ________________________________________ > From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Parkhurst, David > <parkh...@indiana.edu> > Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 4:09 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [External] [R] Concatenation? > > If I have a vector of site abbreviations and a vector of depths in those > water bodies, is there a simple way in R to combine them to make a third > vector? > Examples: > > site depth desired > MU 0 MU0 > MU 1 MU1 > MU 2 MU2 > MC 0 MC0 > MC 1 MC1 > MC 2 MC2 > > The dataset has many more lines than this. I can see how to do this with > lots of if statements, but does R have magic that can make it happen > easily? I guess this would be called concatenation. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.