[R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a character vector?

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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@sta

Re: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a character vector?

On 10/25/05 8:51 AM, "roger bos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > [[alternative HTML version d

Re: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a character vector?

Quoting roger bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ___

Re: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a character vector?

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

Re: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a character vector?

Le 25.10.2005 14:51, roger bos a écrit : >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 > > gsub(' ','',a$tic) -- visit the

Re: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a character vector?

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 0

Re: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a character vector?

Try trim() in gdata package. Wuming On 10/25/05, roger bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >

Re: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a character vector?

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? Not beeing an expert for regular expressions, I'd try sub(" *$", "", sub("^ *", ""