[R] Remove double quotation marks

Lisa lisajca at gmail.com
Tue Dec 29 19:31:31 CET 2009


Thank you for your reply. But in the following case, “cat()” or “print()”
doesn’t work.

data.frame(cbind(variable 1, variable 2, cat(paste("variable", x), "\n"))),
where x is a random number generated by other R script.

Lisa 



Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 
> On 29/12/2009 1:16 PM, Lisa wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> I am not sure how to remove double quotation marks in a string, e.g.,
>> paste("variable", 1). Can anybody please help me solve it? Thank you in
>> advance.
> 
> I think you need to tell us what is wrong with what you get from that. 
> When I look at the result:
> 
>  > cat(paste("variable", 1), "\n")
> variable 1
> 
> I see no quotation marks.  (If you use print() you'll see some, but they 
> aren't part of the string, they are just used in the default display by 
> print().)
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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