[R] paste - eliminate spaces?

Philippe Grosjean phgrosjean at sciviews.org
Wed Jan 25 20:02:47 CET 2006


Just read more carefully the online help for paste (?paste).
You have:

sep: a character string to separate the terms.

and the default value for sep is " " (a space).
So, just use:

 > paste("test", 1, sep = "")

Best,

Philippe Grosjean

r user wrote:
> I am trying to combine the value of a variable and
> text.
> 
> e.g.
> I want “test1”, with no spaces.
> 
> I try:
> 
> h=1
> paste(‘test’,1)
> 
> But get:
> [1] "test 1"
> 
> (i.e. there is a space between “test’“ and “1”)
> 
> Is there a way to eliminate the space?
> 
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