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Formulating a question from a list

Part of working with data is becoming proficient and familiar with inspecting and understanding data frames, lists, and vectors. However, it's important to be able to communicate your findings with reports and plots in a human-readable way across any organization. In the video exercise, you saw how to create sentences from lists with the glue_collapse() function.

In this exercise, you will create a small questionnaire with glue_collapse() that could later be fed to the base R command menu().

This exercise is part of the course

Intermediate Regular Expressions in R

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Exercise instructions

  • Construct a well formulated question by passing fruits to glue_collapse().
  • Separate the fruits with a comma and a space ", " and an ", or " between the last two elements.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

fruits <- list("Apple", "Banana", "Cherries", "Dragon Fruit")

# Use ", " as a separator and ", or " between the last fruits
question <- glue(
  "Which of these do you prefer: {answers}?",
  answers = glue_collapse(
    ___,
    ___ = "___",
    ___ = "___"
  )
)

# Print question
print(question)
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