Meanings
- not comparableNot concatenate.
present singular third person unconcatenates · participle present unconcatenating · participle past unconcatenated · past unconcatenated
- transitivecomputingTo undo the process of concatenation.
The collapse argument tells R to “unconcatenate” the individual lines and create a single string vector.
2014, Larry Pace, R Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 651 more example
However, since we are going to save this combo box back to the file, this would require “unconcatenating” the names before writing them to file, something we would like to avoid.
2001, Patrick G. McKeown, Craig A. Piercy, Learning to Program with Visual Basic, page 181
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unconcatenate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unconcatenate
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