> a = " United Kingdom " > gsub( " ", "", a, fixed=TRUE ) [1] "UnitedKingdom"
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremiah Rounds Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:48 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [R] strip white in character strings > Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:06:39 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [R] strip white in character strings > > Dear all, > > I have several datasets and I want to generate pdf plots from them. > I also want to generate automatically the names of the files. They are > country-specific and the element mycurrentdata[1,1] contains this > information. > > So what I do is something like this: > pdf(file=paste(mycurrentdata[1,1], ".pdf", sep=""), width=...etc) > > The only problem I have is that some of the country names contain > white space (e.g., "United Kingdom"). This is no problem for > generating the pdf plots but it may become problematic during further processing (e.g. > incl. the plots in LaTeX documents). > > Is there an easy function to strip white space out of character > strings (similar to the strip.white=TRUE option in read.table/scan)? How about > a = " United Kingdom " > paste(unlist(strsplit(a,split=" ")), collapse="") [1] "UnitedKingdom" Note better might is using generic trimming functions after the split to catch any left over non-space white space stuff in each split. > > I'd appreciate any kind of help and I hope I did not miss anything > completely obvious. > > Thanks, > Roland > > ______________________________________________ > 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. _________________________________________________________________ 1. ______________________________________________ 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. >>> This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, >>> professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for >>> the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the >>> information in this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the >>> sender. CEG-IP1 ______________________________________________ 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.
