Well, maybe: it assumes that the uppercase string version always occurs after the nonuppercase version. That's why I rejected it.
However, it points out something important: details matter. The more one knows about the nature of the problem, the better the solution one can tailor -- a remark for which the response should be, "well duhhh!" But posters frequently seem to disregard this. -- Bert On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 8:43 AM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > May be this helps: > chnew<-CH > chnew[duplicated(toupper(CH))]<-CH[duplicated(toupper(CH),fromLast=TRUE)] > chnew > #[1] "aBd" "sTb" "aBd" "dFDasd" "asd" "dFDasd" > A.K. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> > To: r-help <r-help@r-project.org> > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 8:39 AM > Subject: [R] Working with string > > 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. > > > ______________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________ 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.