\Header{paste}{Concatenate Strings}
\keyword{character}{paste}
\begin{Usage}
\begin{verbatim}
paste(..., sep = " ", collapse = NULL)
\end{verbatim}
\end{Usage}
\begin{Description}
\texttt{paste} converts its arguments to character strings, and
concatenates them (separating them by the string given by \texttt{sep}).
If a value is specified for \texttt{collapse}, the values in the result
are then concatenated into a single string, with the elements being
separated by the value of \texttt{collapse}.

The concatenated value is returned as the value of \texttt{paste}.\end{Description}
\begin{SeeAlso}
\texttt{\Link{as.character}}, \texttt{\Link{substr}}, \texttt{\Link{nchar}},
\texttt{\Link{strsplit}}.\end{SeeAlso}
\begin{Examples}
\begin{ExampleCode}
paste(1:12) # same as as.character(..)
paste("A", 1:6, sep = "")
paste("Today is", date())
\end{ExampleCode}
\end{Examples}

