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Tip revision: 285c5cfcdd4e411110749680407b6f43775a5c92 authored by Charles Dupont on 25 October 2012, 14:00:08 UTC
version 3.10-1
version 3.10-1
Tip revision: 285c5cf
nstr.Rd
\name{nstr}
\alias{nstr}
\title{ Creates a string of arbitry length }
\description{
Creates a vector of strings which consists of the string segment given in
each element of the \code{string} vector repeated \code{times}.
}
\usage{
nstr(string, times)
}
%- maybe also 'usage' for other objects documented here.
\arguments{
\item{string}{ character: vector of string segments to be
repeated. Will be recycled if argument \code{times} is longer.}
\item{times}{ integer: vector of number of times to repeat the
corisponding segment. Will be recycled if argument \code{string} is
longer.
}
}
\value{
returns a character vector the same length as the longest of the two arguments.
}
\author{ Charles Dupont }
\note{
Will throw a warning if the length of the longer argment is not a even
multiple of the shorter argument.
}
\seealso{ \code{\link{paste}}, \code{\link{rep}} }
\examples{
nstr(c("a"), c(0,3,4))
nstr(c("a", "b", "c"), c(1,2,3))
nstr(c("a", "b", "c"), 4)
}
% Add one or more standard keywords, see file 'KEYWORDS' in the
% R documentation directory.
\keyword{manip}
\keyword{character}% __ONLY ONE__ keyword per line
\keyword{utilities}