Try the "collapse" argument in paste(), i.e. paste(x,collapse=" ")
John Miyamoto wrote:
Dear Help, Suppose I have a character vector.
x <- c("Bob", "loves", "Sally")
I want to combine it into a single string: "Bob loves Sally" . paste(x) yields: paste(x) [1] "Bob" "loves" "Sally"
The following function combines the character vector into a string in the way that I want, but it seems somewhat inelegant.
paste.vector <- function(x, ...) { output <- NULL for (i in 1:length(x)) output <- paste(output, x[i], ...) output } #end of function definition
paste.vector(x) [1] " Bob loves Sally"
Is there a more natural (no loop) way to do this in R?
John Miyamoto
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