Oh, sorry. One type. Here's the correct version On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Bert Gunter <bgun...@gene.com> wrote: > Christofer: > > You may have to fortify the following a bit to allow for the > possibility that some of your caps strings don't match. But other than > that, I think this will do: > >> CH <- c("aBd", "sTb", "ABD", "dFDasd", "asd", "DFDASD") >> caps <- CH %in% toupper(CH) >> noncaps <- CH[!caps] >> chnew <- CH >> chnew[caps] <- noncaps[match(CH[caps], toupper(noncaps))] >> CH > [1] "aBd" "sTb" "ABD" "dFDasd" "asd" > [6] "DFDASD" >> chnew > [1] "aBd" "sTb" "aBd" "dFDasd" "asd" > [6] "dFDasd" > > Cheers, > Bert > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Christofer Bogaso > <bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello again, >> >> Let say I have a lengthy character vector like: >> >> CH <- c("aBd", "sTb", "ABD", "dFDasd", "asd", "DFDASD") >> >> Now I want to create a vector like: >> >> CH_New <- c("aBd", "sTb", "aBd", "dFDasd", "asd", "dFDasd") ## the 3rd and >> 6th element replaced >> >> Basically, the goal is: >> >> If an element has all upper case then it will find another element with all >> lower case or mix of upper/lower case. Then the all-upper-case element will >> be replaced by that mix. If there is multiple match then chose the first >> one. >> >> >> Can somebody give me any pointer how can I achieve that? >> >> Thanks and regards, >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > > -- > > Bert Gunter > Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics > > Internal Contact Info: > Phone: 467-7374 > Website: > http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm
-- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ 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.