Creating a sequential list of letters with R

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I would like to be able to create a sequence of letters in R (to assist in importing data from a SPSS file)

It's quite easy to create a sequence of numbers, for example:

seq(1,1000)
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 1000

paste("something_",1:12,sep="")
[1] something1 something2 ... something12

But is there any functionality for appending, pasting, or creating sequences of letters like this? 

paste("This_",a:z,sep="")
[1]This_a This_b This_c ... This_4z

Thanks in advance!

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4 Answers

Guess you want to get A-1, A-2, A-3, B-1, B-2, B-3, C-1, C-2, C-3 and so on...

I tried this

replicate(3, paste0(LETTERS[1:10], sep="-", 1:3, collapse=", ")

But this way I get

A-1, B-2, C-3, D-1, E-2, F-3, G-1, H-2, I-3, J-1" "A-1, B-2, C-3, D-1, E-2, F-3, G-1, H-2, I-3, J-1, A-1, B-2, C-3, D-1, E-2, F-3, G-1, H-2, I-3, J-1"

I also tried

paste0(replicate(3, LETTERS[1:10]), sep = "-", 1:3)

but got the same results..

How can I get the desired sequence

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