split list of characters in groups of 2

Hi:

Here's one way:

apply(matrix(var.names, ncol = 2, byrow = TRUE), 1, function(x)
paste(x[1], x[2], sep = ','))
[1] "a,b" "c,d" "e,f"

HTH,
Dennis

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:46 PM, B77S<bps0002 at auburn.edu>  wrote:

hi,

If i have a list of things, like this

var.names<- c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f")

how can i get this:

"a, b", "c, d", "e, f"

thanks ahead of time.


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