Category Archives: paste

paste, paste0, and sprintf

Posted on September 15, 2013 by tylerrinker

I find myself pasting urls and lots of little pieces together lately. Now paste is a standard go to guy when you wanna glue some stuff together. But often I find myself pasting and getting stuff like this: Rather than … Continue reading →

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The Need for paste2 (part III)

Posted on May 1, 2012 by tylerrinker

Final installment:  Part III of a multi part blog on the paste2 function… In my first post on the paste2 function I promised proof of a few practical uses.  In Part II of this series we looked at using paste2 … Continue reading →

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The Need for paste2 (part II)

Posted on April 30, 2012 by tylerrinker

This is Part II of a multi part blog on the paste2 function… In my first post on the paste2 function I promised a proof of a few practical uses.  The first example I have comes from psychometrics and comes out of … Continue reading →

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The Need for paste2 (part I)

Posted on April 29, 2012 by tylerrinker

This is Part I of a multi part blog on the paste2 function… I recently generated a new paste function that takes an unspecified list of equal length variables (a column) or multiple columns of a data frame  and pastes … Continue reading →

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