What is the paste0() function in R?

Overview

In R, the paste0() function is used to concatenate vectors after converting to character vectors.

Syntax

paste0(…, collapse = NULL)
Syntax for the paste0() function in R

Parameters

This function takes the following parameter values:

  • ...: This represents one or more objects to be converted to character vectors and concatenated. This is a mandatory parameter.
  • collapse: This is a character string used to separate the result. This is an optional parameter.

Return value

This function returns a character vector of the combined values.

Example

# code to illustrate the paste0() function 



paste0("Hi", "dear", "how", "are", "you", "today")



# using a seperator

paste0(c("Hi", "dear", "how", "are", "you", "today"), collapse = "--")

Explanation

  • Line 3: We use the paste0() function to concatenate the character vector.
  • Line 6: We separate the concatenated string using the collapse argument of the paste0() function.

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