I need the exact same output from this line of code,
> paste('"a"','"b"')
[1] "\"a\" \"b\""
but I need "b" to be a variable which changes in each iteration, so suppose I have x <-"b", paste('"a"',x) or any other ways I tried failed to give me the output I wanted, which is
> paste('"a"','"b"')
[1] "\"a\" \"b\""
Thanks in advance!
OM
using sprintf
x <- "b"
sprintf('"a" "%s"', x)
# [1] "\"a\" \"b\""
If you are using a variable then you have to manually surround it with double quotes. You can use an extra call to paste to do that
> x <- "b"
> paste('"a"', paste('"', x, '"', sep=''))
[1] "\"a\" \"b\""
x <- "b"; paste('"a"', paste0('"', x, '"'))There must be a better way to it, but this works:
x<-paste0('"',"b",'"',collapse = "")
paste('"a"',x)
[1] "\"a\" \"b\""
collapse = "" is redundant here.One way of doing this with a function would be:
quote_me <- function(...) paste0('"', unlist(list(...)), '"')
x <- "b"
quote_me("a", b)
#[1] "\"a\"" "\"b\""
