How do you paste list of items in R

Question

How do you paste list of items and get the result as shown below?

 mylist<- list(c(\"PDLIM5\", \"CBG\"), c(\"PDLIM5\", \"GTA\"), \"DDX60\")

Answer 1

you can try:

sapply(mylist, paste, collapse=":")
#[1] "PDLIM5:CBG" "PDLIM5:GTA" "DDX60"   

The result is a vector.

If you want to further paste the result, you can do:

paste(sapply(mylist, paste, collapse=":"), collapse=" ")
#[1] "PDLIM5:CBG PDLIM5:GTA DDX60"