How about paste?
site <- c('MU','MU','MU','MC','MC','MC')depth <-
c(0,1,2,0,1,2)paste(site, depth, sep="")
result:
[1] "MU0" "MU1" "MU2" "MC0" "MC1" "MC2"
On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 21:09 +0000, Parkhurst, David wrote:
> 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 desiredMU 0 MU0MU 1
> MU1MU 2 MU2MC 0 MC0MC 1
> MC1MC 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.
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