Here's what I came up with:
> gsub("(\\w)[^ ]+[\\b ]", "\\1", astr)
[1] "Timtowtdit"
You might be interested in Regular Expressions Cookbook from O'Reilly
(publisher not author) or http://www.regular-expressions.info/
I usually bumble along knowing there are better ways to do whatever I am doing.
Michael
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