implode {tractor.base}

Create a character string by concatenating the elements of a vector

Description

Create a character string by concatenating the elements of a vector, using a separator and optional final separator.

Usage

implode(strings, sep = "", finalSep = NULL, ranges = FALSE)

Arguments

strings

A vector, which will be coerced to mode character.

sep

A unit length character vector giving the separator to insert between elements.

finalSep

An optional unit length character vector giving the separator to insert between the final two elements.

ranges

Logical value. If TRUE and strings can be interpreted as integers, collapse runs of consecutive numbers into range notation.

Value

A character vector of length one.

Author(s)

Jon Clayden

References

Please cite the following reference when using TractoR in your work:

J.D. Clayden, S. Muñoz Maniega, A.J. Storkey, M.D. King, M.E. Bastin & C.A. Clark (2011). TractoR: Magnetic resonance imaging and tractography with R. Journal of Statistical Software 44(8):1-18. doi:10.18637/jss.v044.i08.

See Also

paste

Examples

implode(1:3, ", ")  # "1, 2, 3"
implode(1:3, ", ", " and ")  # "1, 2 and 3"
implode(1:2, ", ", " and ")  # "1 and 2"
implode(1:3, ", ", ranges=TRUE)  # "1-3"