user2408728
user2408728

Reputation: 33

How to create a sequence starting with a character and then with numbers in R

How to create a sequence starting with a character and then with numbers in R

I wanna to create a sequence like the following: y1998 y1999 y2000 till y2011

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1549

Answers (1)

krlmlr
krlmlr

Reputation: 25444

There's ::

1998:2011

And ' or " to create string constants:

'y'

And paste0 to concatenate both:

paste0('y', 1998:2011)

Note how the paste0 function is applied to the second parameter, element by element. That's one of R's strengths.

Upvotes: 8

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