paste: Concatenate strings

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Concatenate strings

Description

An augmented version of base::paste() with options to manage 'NA' values.

Usage

paste(..., sep = " ", collapse = NULL, na.rm = FALSE)

paste0(..., collapse = NULL, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

...	R objects to be converted to character vectors.
sep	A character. A string to separate the terms.
collapse	A character. An string to separate the results.
na.rm	A logical. Whether to remove NA values from 'x'.

Value

Character vector of concatenated values.

See Also

paste

Examples

# Base paste() NA handling behavior
paste(
  'The', c('red', NA_character_, 'orange'), 'fox jumped', NA_character_, 'over the fence.',
  collapse = ' '
)

# Removal of NA values
paste(
  'The', c('red', NA_character_, 'orange'), 'fox jumped', NA_character_, 'over the fence.',
  collapse = ' ',
  na.rm = TRUE
)

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