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Convert an Object to a String in R Programming - toString() Function

Last Updated : 15 Jul, 2025

toString() function in R Language is used to convert an object into a single character string.

Syntax: toString(x, width) Parameters: x: Object width: maximum string width

Example 1:

Python3 1==

# R program to convert an object to string

# Creating a vector
x <- c("Geeks", "for", "geeks") 

# Calling toString() Function
toString(x)
toString(x, width = 12)

Output:

[1] "Geeks, for, geeks"
[1] "Geeks, f...."

Example 2:

Python3 1==

# R program to convert an object to string

# Creating a matrix
x <- matrix(c(1:9), 3, 3)

# Calling toString() Function
toString(x)

Output:

[1] "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9"

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