On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 08:51 -0400, roger bos wrote:
> for example:
> > a$tic[1:10]
> [1] "AIR " "ABCB " "ABXA " "ACMR " "ADCT " "ADEX "
> [7] "ABM " "AFCE " "AG " "ATG "
> Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a$tic?
> Thanks,
> Roger
Roger,
See the next to last set of examples in ?sub.
> a <- c("ABM ", "AFCE ", "AG ", "ATG ")
> a
[1] "ABM " "AFCE " "AG " "ATG "
> a.new <- sub(' +$', '', a)
> a.new
[1] "ABM" "AFCE" "AG" "ATG"
Also, if this data was generated using read.table() or one of it's
variants, note the use of the 'strip.white' argument in ?read.table.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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