[R] paste doesn't appear to paste?

[Michaell Taylor]

Sorry to be posting another question, but my learning curve is starting to 
flatten some now.

What am I missing here?  

> temp _ name[reis==toupper(location[order(Vgrablow2)][N])]
> temp
[1] "Lawton"
> paste(temp,g)
[1] "Lawton"                    # WHERE IS THE SECOND ELEMENT?
> g
[1] 0.29
> a _ "Lawton"
> paste(a,g)
[1] "Lawton 0.29"           # THIS WORKS (SECOND ELEMENT EXISTS ALSO)
> mode(a)
[1] "character"
> mode(temp)
[1] "character"  		# TEMP AND A ARE BOTH CHARACTERS
>  paste(temp,g,sep="---")
[1] "Lawton"		# DOESN'T EVEN GIVE THE SEPERATOR
>  paste(a,g,sep="---")
[1] "Lawton---0.29"



extraneous info:

> mode(reis)
[1] "character"
> mode(location)
[1] "character"


Michaell Taylor
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