In R: Joining vector elements by row, converting vector rows to strings

Question

Is there a \"by row\" operation in R to convert each row in a vector like this to strings?

> d= cbind(\"Data\", c(\"2\", \"73\"))
> d
     [,1]   [,2]
         


        

Answer 1

Yes, there is. It is called "apply" ;-)

apply(d,1,paste,collapse=" ")
[1] "Data 2"  "Data 73"
# convert to matrix using as.matrix to get exactly your solution

See ?apply and ?paste