[R] String manipulation---mixed case

[Spencer Graves]

      That's great, Peter. 

      For pedestrians like me who are not quite as facile with regular 
expressions, the following seems slightly more readable: 

s <- "the quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog"
ss <- strsplit(s, " ")[[1]]
ss1 <- substring(ss, 1,1)
ss2 <- substring(ss, 2)
paste(toupper(ss1), ss2, sep="", collapse=" ")

[1] "The Quick Red Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Brown Dog"

      Best Wishes,
      spencer graves

Peter Dalgaard wrote:

>Renaud Lancelot <renaud.lancelot at cirad.fr> writes:
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>>This question was posted a while ago and answered by Christian
>>Hoffmann. I wrapped it in a small function:
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>>CapLeading <- function (string){
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>Version of same:
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>s <- "the quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog"
>ss <- strsplit(s, " ")[[1]]
>ss1 <- sub("(.).*", "\\1", ss)
>ss2 <- sub(".", "", ss)
>paste(toupper(ss1), ss2, sep="", collapse=" ")
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