On 14-09-2012, at 14:54, Özgür Asar wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I want to concatenate the elements of two vectors such as
>
> a<-c("a1","a2")
> b<-c("b1","b2")
>
> and obtain
>
> "a1b1", "a1b2","a2b1","a2b2"
>
> I tried the paste and paste0 functions, but they yielded elementwise
> concatenation such as
This is also an option
sort(outer(a,b,paste0))
Berend