How to collapse a list of characters into a single string in R

Question

There is a list which I would like to output into an excel file as a single string. I start with a list of characters.

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Answer 1

The shortest method is to use the base toString function. In any case the output string will contain commas

vector<-c('A', 'B', 'C')

toString(vector)

if you don't want commas

gsub(",","",toString(vector))

If you want any other separator you can substitute anything you like in gsub instead of replacing commas with nothing