Hmisc (version 5.1-2)

nstr: Creates a string of arbitry length

Description

Creates a vector of strings which consists of the string segment given in each element of the string vector repeated times.

Usage

nstr(string, times)

Value

returns a character vector the same length as the longest of the two arguments.

Arguments

string

character: vector of string segments to be repeated. Will be recycled if argument times is longer.

times

integer: vector of number of times to repeat the corisponding segment. Will be recycled if argument string is longer.

Author

Charles Dupont

See Also

paste, rep

Examples

nstr(c("a"), c(0,3,4))

nstr(c("a", "b", "c"), c(1,2,3))

nstr(c("a", "b", "c"), 4)