strrep
Expand the Strings in Character Vector by Repetition
Description
Replaces strings with a repeated version of themselves.
Usage
strrep(x, times)
Arguments
| x |
a character vector, or another data type that can be converted to a character vector with as.character(x).
|
| times |
a vector of nonnegative integers.
|
Value
returns a character vector as long as the longest of x and times,
or of length zero if either argument has length zero. The ith element
of the output will be the ith element of x repeated times[i]
times.
Examples
strrep(c("AB", "CDE", "FG"), c(3,2,0))
strrep(c("xy", "uvw"), 3)
cat(sep="\n", paste0(strrep(" ", c(0,1,2,2,1)),
c("Topics", "Topic A", "Subtopic A1", "Subtopic A2", "Topic B")))