How to print character vector in "copy-paste" ready list format (e.g "a, b, c")?

Asked Jul 02 '19 at 18:20

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I want to print a character vector in R in a way that I can copy and paste it onto a text. Comma-separated, and no quotes.

There are a few similar questions around.

Dput prints in a code-ready format (Print r vector to copy paste into other code.) but keeps the quotes.

The function noquote removes the quotes, but also removes the commas (Remove quotes from a character vector in R)

> vec <- c('a', 'b', 'c')
> print(vec)
[1] "a" "b" "c"
> dput(vec)
c("a", "b", "c")
> noquote(vec)
[1] a b c

I want to have an output like

a, b, c

or similar.

Anyone has any idea?

asked Jul 02 '19 at 18:20

Tiago Lubiana

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Use `cat(vec, sep=", ")` – MrFlick Jul 02 '19 at 18:23
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We can use `cat`(you could also define your own print method) as pointed out by MrFlick above. – NelsonGon Jul 02 '19 at 18:26
@MrFlick your comment is a good answer. Can you post it as an answer so I can mark it as correct? thanks! – Tiago Lubiana Nov 06 '20 at 14:03

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