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Convert variable to STring

5 messages · Alaios, arun, John Kane +2 more

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Hello,

Not sure whether this is what you need.

colnames(mymatrix)<-c("function1","function2","function3")
#[1] "function1, function2, function3"

A.K.



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From: Alaios <alaios at yahoo.com>
To: R help <R-help at r-project.org>
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Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 6:47 AM
Subject: [R] Convert variable to STring

Dear all,
I have a variable that I would like also to use it as a string. The reasons is that I want to collect results from different function to one table.. So when I use the
?colnames(mymatrix) <-c(function1.function2,function3)
the function1, function2, function3 to be "converted" to simple strings so as

?colnames(mymatrix) <-c("function1","function2","function3")

Could you please help me understand how I can do that in R?

Regards

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Can you give us an example of what you mean by the functions listed below.

Otherwise something like this seems to work
xx <-  1 :4
x1  <-  as.character(xx)

mat  <-  matrix(1:12, nrow=3)

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
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You may be searching for the deparse(substitute(x)) idiom. 

Michael
On Jul 30, 2012, at 5:47 AM, Alaios <alaios at yahoo.com> wrote: