[R] pasting several things

chuck.01 CharlieTheBrown77 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 3 19:13:08 CET 2012


Hi Garrett,
That works great, thank you!


gsee wrote
> 
> Try this:
> 
> x <- structure(list(day = 19, C1 = structure(1L, .Label = c("", "C1"
> ), class = "factor"), C2 = structure(2L, .Label = c("", "C2"), class =
> "factor"),
>    C3 = structure(1L, .Label = c("", "C3"), class = "factor"),
>    Q1 = structure(2L, .Label = c("", "Q1"), class = "factor"),
>    Q2 = structure(2L, .Label = c("", "Q2"), class = "factor"),
>    Q3 = structure(1L, .Label = c("", "Q3"), class = "factor")), .Names =
> c("day",
> "C1", "C2", "C3", "Q1", "Q2", "Q3"), row.names = "8", class =
> "data.frame")
> 
> paste(x[1, 1], do.call(paste, c(x[1, x != ""][, -1], list(sep="_"))),
> sep=" -")
> 
> # Output looks like this
>> paste(x[1, 1], do.call(paste, c(x[1, x != ""][, -1], list(sep="_"))),
>> sep=" -")
> [1] "19 -C2_Q1_Q2"
>> x[1, 2] <- "C1"
>> paste(x[1, 1], do.call(paste, c(x[1, x != ""][, -1], list(sep="_"))),
>> sep=" -")
> [1] "19 -C1_C2_Q1_Q2"
> 
> HTH,
> Garrett
> 
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:39 PM, chuck.01 <CharlieTheBrown77@> wrote:
>> I have this type of format:
>>
>> structure(list(day = 19, C1 = structure(1L, .Label = c("", "C1"
>> ), class = "factor"), C2 = structure(2L, .Label = c("", "C2"), class =
>> "factor"),
>>    C3 = structure(1L, .Label = c("", "C3"), class = "factor"),
>>    Q1 = structure(2L, .Label = c("", "Q1"), class = "factor"),
>>    Q2 = structure(2L, .Label = c("", "Q2"), class = "factor"),
>>    Q3 = structure(1L, .Label = c("", "Q3"), class = "factor")), .Names =
>> c("day",
>> "C1", "C2", "C3", "Q1", "Q2", "Q3"), row.names = "8", class =
>> "data.frame")
>>>
>>
>> and want something like this:
>>
>>  19 -C2 _Q1_Q2
>>
>> any ideas?  obviously I could use paste() and get this.  Keep in mind I
>> have
>> many of these and the presence of "C1", "C2", ... etc will vary.
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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