[R] Combining the components of a character vector

[Wiener, Matthew]

The collapse argument does what you want:

x <- c("Bob", "loves", "Sally")
paste(c, collapse = " ")

Hope this helps,

Matt Wiener

-----Original Message-----
From: John Miyamoto [mailto:jmiyamot at u.washington.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 6:54 PM
To: R discussion group
Subject: [R] Combining the components of a character vector


Dear Help,
   Suppose I have a character vector.

x <- c("Bob", "loves", "Sally")

I want to combine it into a single string:  "Bob loves Sally" .
paste(x) yields:
paste(x)
[1] "Bob"   "loves" "Sally"

The following function combines the character vector into a string in the
way that I want, but it seems somewhat inelegant.

paste.vector <- function(x, ...) {
	output <- NULL
	for (i in 1:length(x)) output <- paste(output, x[i], ...)
	output	} #end of function definition

paste.vector(x)
[1] " Bob loves Sally"

Is there a more natural (no loop) way to do this in R?

John Miyamoto

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