paste and paste0
Basics
paste is a function that converts vector elements to character strings and then concatenates them. It has a sep argument (default sep = " ") where the user can include a phrase/string to separate the strings being pasted together
paste0 is a version of paste where its sep argument is "", meaning the strings will be linked with no characters in between.
Examples
How do I concatenate two vectors, element-wise, with a comma in between values from each vector?
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vector1 <- c("one", "three", "five")
vector2 <- c("two", "four", "six")
paste(vector1, vector2, sep=",")[1] "one,two" "three,four" "five,six"