Hadley's package stringr is wonderful for all things string. library(stringr)
?str_trim and ?str_replace are what you want. (the base R equivalent of these two would be ?gsub and some regular expressions) str_trim(str_replace(d5.Region, 'Average', '')) should do the trick. hope that helps, Justin On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Dan Abner <dan.abne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > What is the easiest way to remove the word Average and strip leading > and trailing blanks from the character vector (d5.Region) below? > > .nrow.d5. d5.Region > 1 1 Central Average > 2 2 Coastal Average > 3 3 East Average > 4 4 Metro East Average > 5 5 Metro North Average > 6 6 Metro South Average > 7 7 Metro West Average > 8 8 Northeast Average > 9 9 Northwest Average > > > Thanks! > > Dan > > ______________________________________________ > 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.