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