[R] Concatenating variables

Sundar Dorai-Raj sundar.dorai-raj at PDF.COM
Wed Aug 4 22:32:31 CEST 2004



Doran, Harold wrote:

> Hi all:
> 
>  
> 
> I'm having difficulty with something I believe is very simple, but I'm
> stuck. I have a large data frame that took days to clean and prepare.
> All I now need to do is concatenate three variables into a single
> column. For example, I have tenn$up, tenn$down, and tenn$stable which
> all have values of 1 or 0. I simply want to put all three columns
> together to create a pattern (e.g., 111, 101, 001).
> 
>  
> 
> I tried c(tenn$up,tenn$down,tenn$stable)
> 
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> 
> But this isn't working. Thanks for any help offered.
> 
>  

Try ?paste unstead of `c':

paste(tenn$up, tenn$down, tenn$stable, sep = "")

--sundar




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