How to Concatenate Strings in R

Combining strings for debugging or pretty output is a common task in every programming language. In this article, we will learn how to concatenate strings in R.

To concatenate strings in R, we can use the paste function. By default, the paste function will combine strings with a single space.

paste("Thor", "Loki")

#> [1] Thor Loki

We can specify a custom separator with the sep option.

paste("Thor", "Loki", sep = ", ")

#> [1] Thor, Loki

Finally, we can also pass a vector of strings rather than typing each string in the paste parameters.

names = c("Thor", "Loki")
paste(names, sep = ", ")

#> [1] Thor, Loki