R: Paste two strings without space [duplicate]

Question

I want to merge following two strings in R (and remove the spaces). I was using paste but I was not able to get desired results.

a <- "big earth"
b <- "small moon"

c <- paste(a,b, sep = "")

I want to have a c <- "bigearthsmallmoon" Thank you very much for the help.

Answer 1

You can paste the strings together into one with paste(). Then you can use gsub() to remove all spaces:

gsub(" ", "", paste(a, b))
# [1] "bigearthsmallmoon"