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user823520
user823520

Reputation: 465

Function Modifying a Character String

I need a function that will take input as a character string (BLANK) and print out the following:

"Hello BLANK World"

i.e., world("seven") prints out "Hello seven World"

I'm very confused on how to work with character strings in R.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 213

Answers (4)

bartektartanus
bartektartanus

Reputation: 16080

Use stringi package:

require(stringi)
## Loading required package: stringi
"a"%+%"b"
## [1] "ab"

Upvotes: 0

jlhoward
jlhoward

Reputation: 59345

There's a tutorial on working with character strings in R here.

R does not have a "concatenate" operator as many other languages do. So for example:

x <- "A"
y <- "B"

x + y            # Like javascript? No - does NOT produce "AB"
# Error in x + y : non-numeric argument to binary operator

x || y           # Like SQL? No - does NOT produce "AB"
# Error in x || y : invalid 'x' type in 'x || y'

x . y            # Like PHP? No - does NOT produce "AB"
# Error: unexpected symbol in "x ."

paste(x,y, sep="")
# [1] "AB"

As @Matthew says, you must use paste(...) to concatenate. Read the documentation, though, about default separators.

Upvotes: 4

Tyler Rinker
Tyler Rinker

Reputation: 109844

Or...

 x <- "seven"
 sprintf("Hello %s World", x)

In other words no need for a world function as that's what sprintf does.

Upvotes: 5

Matthew Lundberg
Matthew Lundberg

Reputation: 42639

You want the function paste

world <- function(x) paste("Hello", x, "World")

Upvotes: 5

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