[R] Convert variable to STring

John Kane jrkrideau at inbox.com
Mon Jul 30 14:29:14 CEST 2012


Can you give us an example of what you mean by the functions listed below.

Otherwise something like this seems to work
xx <-  1 :4
x1  <-  as.character(xx)

mat  <-  matrix(1:12, nrow=3)

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: alaios at yahoo.com
> Sent: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:47:45 -0700 (PDT)
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> Subject: [R] Convert variable to STring
> 
> Dear all,
> I have a variable that I would like also to use it as a string. The
> reasons is that I want to collect results from different function to one
> table.. So when I use the
>  colnames(mymatrix) <-c(function1.function2,function3)
> the function1, function2, function3 to be "converted" to simple strings
> so as
> 
>  colnames(mymatrix) <-c("function1","function2","function3")
> 
> Could you please help me understand how I can do that in R?
> 
> Regards
> 
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