strings <- c("apple", "banana", "029")
> strings
[1] "apple" "banana" "029"
I would like to add single quotes to each element in strings
and separate the strings with ,
. My desired output is this:
desired_strings <- "'apple','banana','029'"
> desired_strings
[1] "'apple','banana','029'"
My attempt:
a <- "'"
paste0(mapply(paste0, a, strings, a), ",")
[1] "'apple'," "'banana'," "'029',"
However, this is not quite right.
CodePudding user response:
You can use sQuote()
and then collapse to a single string with paste()
:
paste(sQuote(strings, q = FALSE), collapse = ",")
[1] "'apple','banana','029'"
CodePudding user response:
Using sprintf
.
toString(sprintf("'%s'", strings))
# [1] "'apple', 'banana', '029'"
or
paste(sprintf("'%s'", strings), collapse=",")
# [1] "'apple','banana','029'"