[R] Concatenating one character vector into one string

[michael watson (IAH-C)]

We need both sep and collapse to deal with situations where we are
pasting two character vectors and also where we are pasting just one. 

paste(c("T","i","o","s"), c("his ", "s ", "ne ",
"entence."),sep="",collapse="")

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
On Behalf Of Bos, Roger
Sent: 01 October 2007 13:42
To: Rainer+R-help at krugs.de; r-help
Subject: Re: [R] Concatenating one character vector into one string

Rainer,

This works: paste(x, sep="", collapse="") 

I would have thought this 'paste(x) would work, but it didn't.

Perhaps someone else can tell us why we need collapse="".  What would
break if the default was collapse="" instead of collapse=NULL?

Thanks,

Roger

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Rainer M. Krug
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 8:23 AM
To: r-help
Subject: [R] Concatenating one character vector into one string

Hi

I am sure this is simple - but how can I convert one charecter vector
into one string?

example:

x <- c("This ", "is ", "one ", "sentence.")

should become
"This is one entence"

Thanks

Rainer

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