Concatenating N columns of text in R

Question

I have an arbitrary number of columns containing text data that have been assembled using the cbind() command, for example:

[1,] \"Text 1,1\" \"Text 1,2\" \"Te

Answer 1

It's easy with a data.frame,

m = matrix(letters[1:12], 3, byrow=TRUE)
do.call(paste, as.data.frame(m, stringsAsFactors=FALSE))
#[1] "a b c d" "e f g h" "i j k l"