I addition to all the many good options presented you can also use
trimWhiteSpace{limma} which is just a higher level call to sub()
x=scan("clipboard", what="character")
Read 6 items
x
[1] "AIR " "ABCB " "ABXA " "ACMR " "ADCT " "ADEX "
trimWhiteSpace(x)
[1] "AIR" "ABCB" "ABXA" "ACMR" "ADCT" "ADEX"
Cheers
Francisco
>From: roger bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "([EMAIL PROTECTED])" <[email protected]>
>Subject: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from
>acharacter vector?
>Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:51:48 -0400
>
>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
>
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