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Concatenate a vector of strings/character

If I have a vector of type character, how can I concatenate the values into string? Here's how I would do it with paste():

sdata = c('a', 'b', 'c')
paste(sdata[1], sdata[2], sdata[3], sep ='')

yielding "abc".

But of course, that only works if I know the length of sdata ahead of time.

Solution

  • Try using an empty collapse argument within the paste function:

    paste(sdata, collapse = '')

    Thanks to http://twitter.com/onelinetips/status/7491806343