pasteCols: Paste the columns of a matrix together

In plotrix: Various Plotting Functions

Paste the columns of a matrix together

Description

Paste the columns of a matrix together to form as many "words" as there are columns.

Usage

 pasteCols(x,sep="")

Arguments

x	A matrix.
sep	The separator to use in the ‘⁠paste⁠’ command.

Details

‘⁠pasteCols⁠’ pastes the columns of a matrix together to form a vector in which each element is the concatenation of the elements in each of the columns of the matrix. It is intended for producing identifiers from a matrix returned by the ‘⁠combn⁠’ function.

Value

A vector of character strings.

Author(s)

Jim Lemon

See Also

makeIntersectList

Examples

 # create a matrix of the combinations of the first five letters of the
 # alphabet taken two at a time.
 alpha5<-combn(LETTERS[1:5],2,simplify=TRUE)
 pasteCols(alpha5,sep="+")

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