R help - Oct 2005 - Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from acharacter

I addition to all the many good options presented you can also use 
trimWhiteSpace{limma} which is just a higher level call to sub()

x=scan("clipboard", what="character")
Read 6 items
x
[1] "AIR "  "ABCB " "ABXA " "ACMR "
"ADCT " "ADEX "

trimWhiteSpace(x)
[1] "AIR"  "ABCB" "ABXA" "ACMR"
"ADCT" "ADEX"


Cheers

Francisco

>From: roger bos <roger.bos at gmail.com>
>To: "(r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch.)" <R-help at
stat.math.ethz.ch>
>Subject: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from 
>acharacter vector?
>Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:51:48 -0400
>
>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
>
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