[R] Joining variables

[Marc Schwartz (via MN)]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 14:45 -0400, Guenther, Cameron wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> If I have two variables that are factors or characters and I want to
> create a new variable that is the combination of both what function can
> I use to accomplish this?
> 
> Ex.
> 
> Var1			Var2
> SA100055113		19851113
> 
> And I want
> 
> NewVar
> SA10005511319851113
> 
> Thanks in advance.

See ?paste and note the 'sep' argument:

> NewVar <- paste(Var1, Var2, sep = "")

> NewVar
[1] "SA10005511319851113"

HTH,

Marc Schwartz