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vec_c

Combine many vectors into one vector

Description

Combine all arguments into a new vector of common type.

Usage

vec_c(
  ...,
  .ptype = NULL,
  .name_spec = NULL,
  .name_repair = c("minimal", "unique", "check_unique", "universal")
)

Arguments

...

Vectors to coerce.
.ptype

If NULL, the default, the output type is determined by computing the common type across all elements of ....

Alternatively, you can supply .ptype to give the output known type. If getOption("vctrs.no_guessing") is TRUE you must supply this value: this is a convenient way to make production code demand fixed types.
.name_spec

A name specification for combining inner and outer names. This is relevant for inputs passed with a name, when these inputs are themselves named, like outer = c(inner = 1), or when they have length greater than 1: outer = 1:2. By default, these cases trigger an error. You can resolve the error by providing a specification that describes how to combine the names or the indices of the inner vector with the name of the input. This specification can be:

  • A function of two arguments. The outer name is passed as a string to the first argument, and the inner names or positions are passed as second argument.

  • An anonymous function as a purrr-style formula.

  • A glue specification of the form "{outer}_{inner}".

  • An rlang::zap() object, in which case both outer and inner names are ignored and the result is unnamed.

See the name specification topic.
.name_repair

How to repair names, see repair options in vec_as_names().

Value

A vector with class given by .ptype, and length equal to the sum of the vec_size() of the contents of ....

The vector will have names if the individual components have names (inner names) or if the arguments are named (outer names). If both inner and outer names are present, an error is thrown unless a .name_spec is provided.

Invariants

  • vec_size(vec_c(x, y)) == vec_size(x) + vec_size(y)

  • vec_ptype(vec_c(x, y)) == vec_ptype_common(x, y).

Dependencies

vctrs dependencies

base dependencies

If inputs inherit from a common class hierarchy, vec_c() falls back to base::c() if there exists a c() method implemented for this class hierarchy.

See Also

vec_cbind()/vec_rbind() for combining data frames by rows or columns.

Examples

vec_c(FALSE, 1L, 1.5)

# Date/times --------------------------
c(Sys.Date(), Sys.time())
c(Sys.time(), Sys.Date())

vec_c(Sys.Date(), Sys.time())
vec_c(Sys.time(), Sys.Date())

# Factors -----------------------------
c(factor("a"), factor("b"))
vec_c(factor("a"), factor("b"))


# By default, named inputs must be length 1:
vec_c(name = 1)
try(vec_c(name = 1:3))

# Pass a name specification to work around this:
vec_c(name = 1:3, .name_spec = "{outer}_{inner}")

# See `?name_spec` for more examples of name specifications.
vctrs

Vector Helpers

v0.3.8
MIT + file LICENSE
Authors
Hadley Wickham [aut], Lionel Henry [aut, cre], Davis Vaughan [aut], data.table team [cph] (Radix sort based on data.table's forder() and their contribution to R's order()), RStudio [cph]
Initial release

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