vcat {sfsmisc}

Paste Utilities – Concatenate Strings

Description

Concatenate vector elements or anything using paste(*, collapse = .). These are simple short abbreviations I have been using in my own codes in many places.

Usage

vcat(vec, sep = " ")
ccat(...)

Arguments

vec, ...

any vector and other arguments to be pasted to together.

sep

the separator to use, see the Details section.

Details

The functions are really just defined as
vcat := function(vec, sep = " ") paste(vec, collapse = sep)

ccat := function(...) paste(..., collapse = "", sep = "")

Value

a character string (of length 1) with the concatenated arguments.

Author(s)

Martin Maechler, early 1990's.

See Also

paste, as.character, format. cat() is really for printing.

Examples

ch <- "is"
ccat("This ", ch, " it: ", 100, "%")
vv <- c(1,pi, 20.4)
vcat(vv)
vcat(vv, sep = ", ")