Creates a string of arbitry length

Creates a vector of strings which consists of the string segment given in each element of the string vector repeated times.

nstr(string, times)

Arguments

string

character: vector of string segments to be repeated. Will be recycled if argument times is longer.

times

integer: vector of number of times to repeat the corisponding segment. Will be recycled if argument string is longer.

Value

returns a character vector the same length as the longest of the two arguments.

Author

Charles Dupont

Note

Will throw a warning if the length of the longer argment is not a even multiple of the shorter argument.

See also

paste, rep

Examples

nstr(c("a"), c(0,3,4))
#> [1] ""     "aaa"  "aaaa"

nstr(c("a", "b", "c"), c(1,2,3))
#> [1] "a"   "bb"  "ccc"

nstr(c("a", "b", "c"), 4)
#> [1] "aaaa" "bbbb" "cccc"