On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Knut Krueger <r...@krueger-family.de> wrote:
> Hi to all
>
> I need a string like
> temp <- paste("m1","m2","m3",sep=",")
> But i must know how many items are in the string,afterwards
> the other option would be to use a vector
> temp <- c("m1","m2","m3")
> No problem to get the count of items but I must get afterwards the string
> "m1,m2,m3"
> No problem to build the string with a loop, but it should be more easy but
> it seems that I am looking to the wrong functions.
>
> Kind regards Knut
>
Just thought I'd show you a solution from the other direction, in
addition to those that all other have posted:
temp <- paste("m1","m2","m3",sep=",")##Generate string
nchar(gsub("([^,])","",temp))+1## Count commas in the string and add 1.
Regards,
Gustaf
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