[R] Paste Funtion Help

[Bert Gunter]

The problem in the original post is, as clearly stated , the ":=",
which is some other language, not R. From which I infer that the OP
needs to spend some additional time with an R tutorial or two to learn
R.

Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
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On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Shivi,
>
> I usually do
>
> merge.salaries$name <- paste(merge.salaries$nameFirst,
> merge.salaries$nameLast)
>
> also if merge.salaries[, name:=paste("nameFirst","nameLast")] would work,
> you would end up with a column full of "nameFirst nameLast".
>
> Best,
> Ulrik
>
> On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 at 17:32 SHIVI BHATIA <shivi.bhatia at safexpress.com>
> wrote:
>
>> HI Team,
>>
>>
>>
>> Need help with the below syntax.
>>
>>
>>
>> merge.salaries[, name:=paste("nameFirst","nameLast")]. Here merge.salaries
>> is the data set I have merged.
>>
>>
>>
>> There are 2 columns nameFirst and nameLast I need to merge these two into
>> one and name as name however I can getting an error:
>>
>>
>>
>> Error in `[.data.frame`(merge.salaries, , `:=`(name, paste("nameFirst",  :
>>
>>   could not find function ":="
>>
>>
>>
>> Please advice.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Shivi
>>
>> Mb: 9891002021
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