On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Trafim Vanishek <rdapam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > Are there any functions in R to reverse the order of the string. > smth like reverse("abc") to get "cba"? >
Suppose data.frame DF has a column for which we wish to reverse each component. Then using the builtin month.abb try this: > DF <- data.frame(month = month.abb) > library(sqldf) > sqldf("select reverse(month) from DF") reverse(month) 1 naJ 2 beF 3 raM 4 rpA 5 yaM 6 nuJ 7 luJ 8 guA 9 peS 10 tcO 11 voN 12 ceD ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.