Concatenate strings of different length into one

Question

I have two character objects of different length:

a <- "A"
bc <- c("B","C")

Now I would like to concatenate these in such a manner that I get "ABC", but paste() repeats a as many times as length(bc):

paste("a",c("b","c"),collapse="", sep="")
> "ABAC"

Anyone an idea on how to get "ABC" instead of "ABAC"?

Many thanks!

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 28 '14 at 15:09

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Try this

> paste(c(a,bc), collapse="", sep="")
[1] "ABC"

answered May 28 '14 at 15:09

Jilber Urbina

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Or `paste0(c(a,bc), collapse="")` in newer versions of `R`. – jdharrison May 28 '14 at 15:14

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