stri_dup: Duplicate Strings

Description

Duplicates each str(e1) string times(e2) times and concatenates the results.

Usage

stri_dup(str, times)

e1 %s*% e2

e1 %stri*% e2

Arguments

str, e1

a character vector of strings to be duplicated

times, e2

an integer vector with the numbers of times to duplicate each string

Details

Vectorized over all arguments.

e1 %s*% e2 and e1 %stri*% e2 are synonyms for stri_dup(e1, e2)

Value

Returns a character vector.

Author(s)

Marek Gagolewski and other contributors

See Also

The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/

Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, doi:10.18637/jss.v103.i02

Other join: %s+%(), stri_flatten(), stri_join(), stri_join_list()

Examples

stri_dup('a', 1:5)
## [1] "a"     "aa"    "aaa"   "aaaa"  "aaaaa"
stri_dup(c('a', NA, 'ba'), 4)
## [1] "aaaa"     NA         "babababa"
stri_dup(c('abc', 'pqrst'), c(4, 2))
## [1] "abcabcabcabc" "pqrstpqrst"
"a" %s*% 5
## [1] "aaaaa"