metdat function

Extracts (and merges) chunks of characters.

metdat(x, i, sep = "-", collapse = sep)

Arguments

• x: A character vector.
• i: Index specifying which chunks of characters will be extracted (and merged).
• sep: Chunks separator character. Defaults to "-".
• collapse: New chunks separator character. Default to 'sep'.

Returns

A character vector with the extracted (and merged) chunks of characters.

Examples

x <- "this is one chunk of characters & this is another one"
metdat(x, 1, " & ")
metdat(x, 2, " & ")
metdat(x, c(1, 2), " & ")
metdat(x, c(1, 2), " & ", " and ")