Comment Comment by scottmmjackson But if you know R, you can change the behavior of operators. > oldPlus <- `+` > `+` <- function(e1, e2) { + if (is.character(e1) && is.character(e2)) + paste(e1,e2,sep="") + else + oldPlus(e1,e2) + } > "hello" + "world" [1] "helloworld" parent scottmmjackson 9 years ago