On Mar 7, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Dan Abner wrote:
Hi everyone, What is the easiest way to remove the word Average and strip leading and trailing blanks from the character vector (d5.Region) below? .nrow.d5. d5.Region 1 1 2 2 Coastal Average 3 3 East Average 4 4 Metro East Average 5 5 Metro North Average 6 6 Metro South Average 7 7 Metro West Average 8 8 Northeast Average 9 9 Northwest Average
Not sure which leading or trailing spaces you mean. Once cannot infer such structure from console output. Provide a reproducible example with dput() if you want better answers.
> sub( "\\s+Average.+$", "", "Central Average junk ") [1] "Central" This would strip space before 'Average' and anything after it. -- David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
