Is there a character repetition operator or function in R?

Question

Is there a simple way to do this in R?

paste0( rep(" ", times=i), collapse="" )

This would be equivalent to Perl's x operator:

" " x $i

I'm hoping for something in the default packages. I would rather not load a package just to do this.

I think it's fair to duplicate with that question, but this one should not be deleted as it is expressed a bit differently. — thelatemail, Jun 10 '20 at 01:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 10 '20 at 01:36

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Yes, you can use strrep

i <- 10
strrep(" ", i)
#[1] "          "

answered Jun 10 '20 at 01:36

Ronak Shah

Thanks. I knew that once. `strrep` should be in the "See Also" section on the `rep` help page. – Arnold Cross Jun 10 '20 at 01:39

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