title: R simple equivalent to strcat
body: <p>I would like a way to concatenate an array of strings into a single string.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a more basic way to concatenate values in an array than my 'paste.c' function below?</p>
  
  <pre><code>paste(1,2,3)    # result: "1 2 3"
  paste(c(1,2,3)) # result: "1" "2" "3", analogous to Unix 'paste' result
  paste.c &lt;- function(y) {
      as.character(
          tapply( X        = y, 
                  INDEX    = rep.int(1, length(y)), 
                  FUN      = paste, 
                  sep      = "", 
                  collapse = ""
          )
      )
  }
  paste.c(c(1,2,3)) # result: "123", which is what I need at the moment
  </code></pre>