How to put quotes around several words quickly in Rstudio?

Question

How to I make MI, ID, FL, into "MI", "ID", "FL" without having to type every single double quote?

Answer 1

You may want to check out the datapasta package!

If you follow directions under "Pasting a list as a horizontal vector with vector_paste()" of the linked vignette, you'll be able to type something like MI, ID, FL cut it and then use an assigned keyboard shortcut, say shift + cmd + v, to paste it into c("MI", "ID", "FL").

Answer 2

The Hmisc package has a function Cs(), it will evaluate comma separated text as having quotes.

Cs(MI, ID, FL)
#becomes:
"MI", "ID", "FL"