[R] Recursive concatenation

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Thu Sep 6 17:46:04 CEST 2007


Or something like:

R> do.call(paste, c(expand.grid(LETTERS[1:3], 1:3), sep=""))
[1] "A1" "B1" "C1" "A2" "B2" "C2" "A3" "B3" "C3"

(The ordering is bit different, but that shouldn't matter.)

Andy 

From: Dimitris Rizopoulos
> try this:
> 
> paste(rep(LETTERS[1:3], each = 3), 1:3, sep = "")
> 
> 
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> Quoting Dennis Fisher <fisher at plessthan.com>:
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> > Colleagues,
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> > I want to create the following array:
> > 	"A1", "A2", "A3", "B1", "B2", "B3", "C1", "C2", "C3"
> >
> > I recall that there is a trick using "c" or "paste" permitting me to
> > form all combinations of c("A", "B", "C") and 1:3.  But, I can't
> > recall the trick.
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> > Dennis
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