I have to add some clarification: there are ONLY 4 articles (el,la,los,las) and the structure is always the same:
NAMEOFMUNICIPALITY (El) NAMEOFMUNICIPALITY (La) etc. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:42:54AM +0100, Igor Sosa Mayor wrote: > Hi R-Users, > > I want to manipulate some strings in the following way. I have the > following vector with spanish municipalities: > > municipios<-c("Allande", "Aller", "Amieva", "Avilés", "Belmonte de > Miranda", > "Degaña", "Franco (El)", "Gijón", "Gozón", "Grado", "Grandas de Salime", > "Quirós", "Regueras (Las)", "Ribadedeva", "Ribadesella", "Ribera de > Arriba") > > The problem is: some names have an article ("Franco (El)", "Regueras > (Las)"). Others don't. I want to do the following conversion: > > "Regueras (Las)"---> "Las Regueras" > > That is: I want to loop through the names, look whether they have a > postponed article, extract and delete this article and put it in front > of the rest of the name. > > Any hints? Thanks in advance. > > -- > :: Igor Sosa Mayor :: joseleopoldo1...@gmail.com :: > :: GnuPG: 0x69804897 :: http://www.gnupg.org/ :: -- :: Igor Sosa Mayor :: joseleopoldo1...@gmail.com :: :: GnuPG: 0x69804897 :: http://www.gnupg.org/ :: ______________________________________________ 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.