I have a data frame of amino acid sites, and want to create a new data frame of each pairwise combination of these sites.

The original data will look something like this:

df<-cbind(letters[1:5], letters[6:10], letters[11:15])
df
 [,1] [,2] [,3] 
[1,] "a"  "f"  "k" 
[2,] "b"  "g"  "l" 
[3,] "c"  "h"  "m" 
[4,] "d"  "i"  "n" 
[5,] "e"  "j"  "o"

And what I would like is this:

newdf<-cbind(paste(df[,1],df[,2],sep=""),paste(df[,1],df[,3],sep=""),(paste(df[,2],df[,3],sep="")))
newdf
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] "af" "ak" "fk"
[2,] "bg" "bl" "gl"
[3,] "ch" "cm" "hm"
[4,] "di" "dn" "in"
[5,] "ej" "eo" "jo"

The actual data may have hundreds of rows and/or columns, so obviously I need a less manual way of doing this. Any help is much appreciated, I am but a humble biologist and my skill set in this area is rather limited.

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