Hi all,
I wonder if the R Core team might reconsider an old feature request, as
detailed in this 2005 thread:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-February/thread.html#66698
The TL;DR version is base R support for a `+.character` method. This would
essentially provide a shortcut to `past
Grant,
One nit to consider is that the default behavior of pasteo() to include a space
as a separator would not be a perfect choice for the usual meaning of plus.
I would prefer a+b to be "helloworld" in your example and to get what you say
would be
a + " " + b
Which I assume would put in a
Hello,
Bert Gunter started a very recent R-Help thread [1] about the following
method not working.
`+.character` <- function(x, y) paste0(x, y)
The discussion is worth reading and at least partly answers to the
reason why the feature request has never made it to base R.
It goes without sa
