[R] Concatenating variables

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Wed Aug 4 23:08:46 CEST 2004


"Doran, Harold" <HDoran at air.org> writes:

> 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).

That's not contatenation!

> I tried c(tenn$up,tenn$down,tenn$stable)

but this is....

> But this isn't working. Thanks for any help offered.

It's working alright, just not doing what you want. How about

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

?

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