Hmisc (version 4.0-2)

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)

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.

Value

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

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)