[R] merge strings

[Bingshan Li]

Hi Duncan Murdoch, 

Thanks for the trick and it works!


--- Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:

> Bingshan Li wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a vector and want to merge its elements one
> by
> > one into a single string or number. For example,
> > x=c(1,2,3), what I want is a new number 123. I
> used
> > "paste" but it just output "1" "2" "3" which is
> not
> > what I want. Is there any way to do this?
> >
> > Thanks!
> 
> Use the collapse argument to paste:
> 
> paste(x, collapse="")
> 
> Or, if you want a number,
> 
> sum(x * 10^rev(1:length(x) - 1))
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
>