[R] String concatenation

[Peng Jiang]

Hi,  Andy
  I am a little confused, why don't you just use paste() directly?

 > paste("12","3","45",sep="")

produce the same result with your concat.

regards .
On 2008-6-28, at 下午7:44, Andy Fugard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is the following function built in somewhere?
>
> concat = function(v) {
>  res = ""
>
>  for (i in 1:length(v))
>    res = paste(res,v[i],sep="")
>
>  res
> }
>
> e.g.
>
> > concat(c("12","3","45"))
> [1] "12345"
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
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