How to paste a string on each element of a vector of strings using apply in R?

No need for apply(), just use paste():

R> d <- c("Mon","Tues","Wednes","Thurs","Fri","Satur","Sun")
R> week <- paste(d, "day", sep="")
R> week
[1] "Monday"    "Tuesday"   "Wednesday" "Thursday"  
[4] "Friday"    "Saturday"  "Sunday"   
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