chosenFew: Print the chosen few items of a long vector

In ribiosUtils: Utilities from and Interface to the Bioinfo-C (BIOS) Library

Description

Print the chosen few (the first and the last) items of a long vector

Usage

chosenFew(vec, start = 3, end = 1, collapse = ",")

Arguments

vec	A vector of characters or other types that can be cast into characters
start	Integer, how many elements at the start shall be printed
end	Integer, how many elements at the end shall be printed
collapse	Character used to separate elements

Value

A character string ready to be printed

Note

In case the vector is shorter than the sum of start and end, the whole vector is printed.

Author(s)

Jitao David Zhang <[e-mail]>

Examples

lvec1 <- 1:100
chosenFew(lvec1)
chosenFew(lvec1, start=5, end=3)

svec <- 1:8
chosenFew(svec)
chosenFew(svec, start=5, end=4)

ribiosUtils documentation built on March 13, 2020, 2:54 a.m.