R: Creates a string of arbitry length

nstr {Hmisc} | R Documentation

## Creates a string of arbitry length

### Description

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

### Usage

    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.

### Note

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

### Author(s)

Charles Dupont

### See Also

`paste`, `rep`

### Examples

    nstr(c("a"), c(0,3,4))

    nstr(c("a", "b", "c"), c(1,2,3))

    nstr(c("a", "b", "c"), 4)

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