[R] String concatenation

[Andy Fugard]

Hi,

Is the following function built in somewhere?

concat = function(v) {
   res = ""

   for (i in 1:length(v))
     res = paste(res,v[i],sep="")

   res
}

e.g.

 > concat(c("12","3","45"))
[1] "12345"

Cheers,

Andy

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