Thanks to everyone for the gsub function. The white spaces were generated by reading in the file, but its a fixed width file and I only need some of the columns, so this was the easiest way to do it. Thanks, Roger
On 10/25/05, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html