paste                  package:base                  R Documentation

_C_o_n_c_a_t_e_n_a_t_e _S_t_r_i_n_g_s

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Concatenate vectors after converting to character.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     paste(..., sep = " ", collapse = NULL)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

     ...: one or more R objects, to be coerced to character vectors.

     sep: a character string to separate the terms.

collapse: an optional character string to separate the results.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     `paste' converts its arguments to character strings, and
     concatenates them (separating them by the string given by `sep').
     If the arguments are vectors, they are concatenated term-by-term
     to give a character vector result.

     If a value is specified for `collapse', the values in the result
     are then concatenated into a single string, with the elements
     being separated by the value of `collapse'.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A character vector of the concatenated values.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     String manipulation with `as.character', `substr', `nchar',
     `strsplit'; further, `cat' which concatenates and writes to a
     file.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     paste(1:12) # same as as.character(..)
     paste("A", 1:6, sep = "")
     paste("Today is", date())

