You don't need loops or apply with paste since it's vectorized: x <- data.frame(n = 1:5, l = letters[1:5], stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
paste(x[,1], x[,2], sep = "_") Cheers, Michael On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Chet Seligman <chet.selig...@gmail.com> wrote: > This works, where zz is a dataframe: > > for(i in 1:nrow(zz)) { > zzz[i,1]<-paste(zz[i,1],zz[i,2],sep="_") > } > > I would like to use "apply" to concatentate two columns of text along with > a separator. > How? > > Chet > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.