On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 16:42 +0200, Navarre Sabine wrote:
> Hi,
> I would to get the first letter of a word like:
>
> > title_cat
> TitleCat
> 1 Training
>
> I would like T from Training!
>
> Thnaks a lot for your help
>
> Sabine
There are multiple approaches, but you need to be careful, since it
appears that your object is a factor. Thus you may need to convert to a
character vector first:
> title_cat <- factor("Training")
> substr(as.character(title_cat), 1, 1)
[1] "T"
Otherwise:
> title_cat <- "Training"
> substr(title_cat, 1, 1)
[1] "T"
See ?substr for more information.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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