[R] removing last element from a character string

[Uwe Ligges]

Luis Rideau Cruz wrote:
> 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
> 


   substr(t, 1, nchar(t)-1)

Uwe Ligges


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