[R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a character vector?

[Sean Davis]

On 10/25/05 8:51 AM, "roger bos" <roger.bos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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See ?gsub.

gsub(' ','',a$tic)

Sean