[R] concatenate vector after strsplit()

[Robert Baer]

Thanks Gabor.  Your suggestions work as well and have been helpful in my 
understanding,  I can't use any excuse of not knowing about "]" in this 
case!

Rob

> fil3 = sapply(ls1, function(x) paste(x[1:4], collapse = ""))
> fil4 = sapply(unname(as.data.frame(ls1))[1:4,], paste, collapse = "")
> fil5 = sapply(as.data.frame(ls1)[1:4,], paste, collapse = "")
>> What I want to end up with is a vector that is the row-wise concatenation 
>> of
>> the strings in each row of your matrix or each element of my original 
>> list.
>
> Try this:
>
>   sapply(ls1, function(x) paste(x[1:4], collapse = ""))
>
> or this:
>
>   sapply(unname(as.data.frame(ls))[1:4,], paste, collapse = "")
>
> If you don't mind ugly names on the result the last one can be shortened 
> to:
>
>   sapply(as.data.frame(ls)[1:4,], paste, collapse = "")
>
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