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...(only difference is that the full dataset has all the states and counties in the southeast United States). I keep getting this strange error with the lowerize function (which didn't occur the first few times I use the code below), and oddly enough the error doesn't happen with the function CapLeading (which is in the same package). > correlfile[1:3,] state statecounty county 1 AL AL_AUTAUGA AUTAUGA 2 AL AL_BALDWIN BALDWIN 3 AL AL_BARBOUR BARBOUR library(cwhmisc) > correlfile$county[correlfile$state=="AL"]=lowerize(correlfile$county[correlfile$state==&qu...

Dear R world, Do you know about a function that would capitalize in the correct manner first and family names? I found in the cwhmisc only the CapLeading function, but it just does not do the job, taking care only to capitalize the first letter of a word. I am looking for a function that would recognize " |'|Mc|-" and capitalize the first letter following these characters. An example: names<-c("jean-francois st-john",...

Hello, Does anyone know of a "slick" way to get R to convert a string which is all upper case to a string where the first letter in each word is upper case and all others are lower case? I suspect the solution is to begin by parsing the string, convert the appropriate letters to upper and lower case using "toupper" and "tolower", and then to paste the pieces back