join_words: Join multiple words into a single string

In xfun: Supporting Functions for Packages Maintained by 'Yihui Xie'

Join multiple words into a single string

Description

If words is of length 2, the first word and second word are joined by the and string; if and is blank, sep is used. When the length is greater than 2, sep is used to separate all words, and the and string is prepended to the last word.

Usage

join_words(
  words,
  sep = ", ",
  and = " and ",
  before = "",
  after = before,
  oxford_comma = TRUE
)

Arguments

words	A character vector.
sep	Separator to be inserted between words.
and	Character string to be prepended to the last word.
before, after	A character string to be added before/after each word.
oxford_comma	Whether to insert the separator between the last two elements in the list.

Value

A character string marked by raw_string().

Examples

join_words("a")
join_words(c("a", "b"))
join_words(c("a", "b", "c"))
join_words(c("a", "b", "c"), sep = " / ", and = "")
join_words(c("a", "b", "c"), and = "")
join_words(c("a", "b", "c"), before = "\"", after = "\"")
join_words(c("a", "b", "c"), before = "\"", after = "\"", oxford_comma = FALSE)

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