.BG
.FN paste
.TL
Glue Data Together to Make Character Data
.CS
paste(..., sep=" " , collapse=)
.AG ...
vectors which may be either numeric, logical, or character.
All arguments are coerced to mode character.
Missing values (`NA's) are allowed.
.AG sep=
the character string to be inserted between successive
arguments.  Can be "" for no space.  Default is a single space.
.AG collapse
optional character string to use in collapsing the result.
By default, no collapsing is done.
.RT
character vector, with length equal to the maximum
of the lengths of the arguments
(unless `collapse' is given, in which case
the length is 1).
The `i'-th element of the
result is the concatenation of the `i'-th elements of the
arguments.  If
the length of any argument is less than the maximum,
elements of that argument are repeated cyclically.  In
particular, an argument can be a single element, to appear
in each element of the result.
If `collapse' is given, all of the strings
produced are finally collapsed into one long string with the
`collapse' string inserted between elements.
.br
.ne 5
.EX
paste("no.",1:10)    # gives "no. 1", "no. 2" ...

paste(1:10,collapse="")	# produces "12345678910"

paste(state.name,"pop=",pop)   # "Alabama pop= 12.345"...
.KW manip
.WR
