"t c" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I wish to obtain the right-most n characters of a character string? What is the appropriate function?
substr will work: > x <- c("abcd", "xyz") > N <- 2 > substr(x, nchar(x)-N+1, nchar(x)) [1] "cd" "yz" > N <- 3 > substr(x, nchar(x)-N+1, nchar(x)) [1] "bcd" "xyz" efg ______________________________________________ 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