[R] String concatenation

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sat Jun 28 17:20:38 CEST 2008


paste(v, collapse="")

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, 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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