Warnes, Gregory R
2005-Oct-25 13:32 UTC
[R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces f rom a character vector?
If you are interested in trimming leading and trailing whitespace (and not interior whitespace), you can use the 'trim' function from the 'gdata' package. -G> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of roger bos > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:52 AM > To: (r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch.) > Subject: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces > from a character vector? > > > for example: > > a$tic[1:10] > [1] "AIR " "ABCB " "ABXA " "ACMR " "ADCT " "ADEX " > [7] "ABM " "AFCE " "AG " "ATG " > Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a$tic? > Thanks, > Roger > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- LEGAL NOTICE\ Unless expressly stated otherwise, this messag...{{dropped}}