How to repeat a String N times in R?

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Marsellus Wallace · Mar 12, 2014 · Viewed 71.6k times · Source

In Ruby I could repeat a String n times with the following:

E.G. "my_string" * 2 -> "my_stringmy_string"

Is there an equally simple way for doing this in R?

Answer

You can use replicate or rep:

replicate(2, "my_string")
# [1] "my_string" "my_string"

rep("my_string", 2)
# [1] "my_string" "my_string"

paste will put it together:

paste(replicate(2, "my_string"), collapse = "")
# [1] "my_stringmy_string"