strrep {stringx}

Duplicate Strings

Description

Concatenate a number of copies of each string.

Usage

strrep(x, times)

e1 %x*% e2

Arguments

e1, x

character vector (or an object coercible to) whose elements are to be duplicated

e2, times

numeric vector giving the number of times to repeat the corresponding strings

Details

Both arguments are recycled if necessary.

The `%x*%` operator mimics a vectorised version of Python's `*` for strings (str.__mul__).

Value

A character vector (in UTF-8).

`%x*%` and strrep preserve object attributes in a similar way as other Arithmetic operators.

Differences from Base R

Replacement for base strrep implemented with stri_dup.

• partial recycling with no warning "longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length" [fixed here]

• base strrep seems to preserve only the names attribute, and only if the input is of type character (whilst paste preserves nothing) [fixed]

• overloading `*.character` has no effect in R, because S3 method dispatch is done internally with hard-coded support for character arguments. We could have replaced the generic `*` with the one that calls UseMethod, but it feels like a too intrusive solution [fixed by introducing `%x+%` operator]

Author(s)

Marek Gagolewski

See Also

The official online manual of stringx at https://stringx.gagolewski.com/

Related function(s): paste, sprintf

Examples

x <- structure(c(A="a", B=NA, C="c"), attrib1="value1")
x %x*% 3
x %x*% 1:3
"a" %x*% 1:3
stringx::strrep(x, 3)
base::strrep(x, 3)
y <- matrix(1:6, nrow=2, dimnames=list(c("A", "B"), NULL))
y %x*% 1:2
stringx::strrep(y, 1:2)
base::strrep(y, 1:2)