[R] Thanks re Combining the components of a character vector

[John Miyamoto]

Many people pointed out that the 'collapse' argument yields the solution
to my query:

> x <- c("Bob", "loves", "Sally")
> paste(x, collapse=" ")
[1] "Bob loves Sally"

I had looked at the documentation for 'paste' within R and also in several
books before sending my question to R-Help, so I was aware of the
'collapse' argument, but I was making the mistake of abbreviating
'collapse':

> paste(x, col=" ")
[1] "Bob  "   "loves  " "Sally  "

The real source of my confusion was that I wasn't aware that arguments
following '...' must be fully specified.  Now I know that this is
important.  Thanks for the help.

John

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