How to combine multiple character columns into a single column in an R data frame

Question

I am working with Census data and I need to combine four character columns into a single column.

Example:

LOGRECNO STATE COUNTY  TRACT BLOCK
    60           


        

Answer 1

You can try this too

AL_Blocks <- transform(All_Blocks, BLOCKID = paste(STATE,COUNTY,
                       TRACT, BLOCK, sep = "")