[R] Combining the components of a character vector

[Ben Bolker]

  paste(x,collapse=" ")


On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, John Miyamoto wrote:

> 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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