[R] paste dataframe

[Deepayan Sarkar]

--- Olivier Martin <olivier.martin at inrialpes.fr> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Assume i have two dataframes A and B with characters objects
> for example,
> A<-rbind(c("the","is"),c("and","!"))
> B<-rbind(c("car","red"),c("blue","!"))

I believe these would be just matrices, and not data frames.

> and i would like to obtain the C dataframe
> C<-rbind(c("the "is red"),c("and blue","!!"))
> 
> What is the solution without loops ?

If you mean 

C<-rbind(c("the "is red"),c("and blue","! !"))

you could try

C <- matrix(paste(A, B), dim(A))

(this is assuming that dim(A)==dim(B), you could put a check for that).
This will not work if A and B are data frames, BTW.

-Deepayan




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