[R] removing last element from a character string

Luis Rideau Cruz Luisr at frs.fo
Fri Aug 20 12:47:17 CEST 2004


R-help,

Any function to remove last element (or any specific elemnet in the sequence) from a character string?

t<-c("aaab","qqqc")

>function(t)  ### remove last character (b and c respectively)

> aaa   qqq

Thanks

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