这是一个递归解决方案:
f <- function(x,pos=2){
if(pos <= nchar(x))
c(f(x,pos+1), f(`substr<-`(x, pos, pos, "X"),pos+1))
else x
}
f(x)[-1]
# [1] "ECEX" "ECXT" "ECXX" "EXET" "EXEX" "EXXT" "EXXX"
或者使用expand.grid:
do.call(paste0, expand.grid(c(substr(x,1,1),lapply(strsplit(x,"")[[1]][-1], c, "X"))))[-1]
# [1] "EXET" "ECXT" "EXXT" "ECEX" "EXEX" "ECXX" "EXXX"
或者使用combn/Reduce/substr<-:
combs <- unlist(lapply(seq(nchar(x)-1),combn, x =seq(nchar(x))[-1],simplify = F),F)
sapply(combs, Reduce, f= function(x,y) `substr<-`(x,y,y,"X"), init = x)
# [1] "EXET" "ECXT" "ECEX" "EXXT" "EXEX" "ECXX" "EXXX"
解释第二个解决方案
pairs0 <- lapply(strsplit(x,"")[[1]][-1], c, "X") # pairs of original letter + "X"
pairs1 <- c(substr(x,1,1), pairs0) # including 1st letter (without "X")
do.call(paste0, expand.grid(pairs1))[-1] # expand into data.frame and paste