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

Stefano Calza stecalza at tiscali.it
Tue Oct 25 16:42:27 CEST 2005


What about

xx <- c("AIR ", "ABCB ", "ABXA ", "ACMR ", "ADCT ", "ADEX ","  AAA")

xx=gsub("[[:blank:]]","",xx)

Stefano

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:14:39PM +0200, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:
<Dimitris>one way is to use strsplit(), i.e.,
<Dimitris>
<Dimitris>xx <- c("AIR ", "ABCB ", "ABXA ", "ACMR ", "ADCT ", "ADEX ")
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<Dimitris>Subject: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces 
<Dimitris>from acharacter vector?
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<Dimitris>
<Dimitris>> for example:
<Dimitris>>> a$tic[1:10]
<Dimitris>> [1] "AIR " "ABCB " "ABXA " "ACMR " "ADCT " "ADEX "
<Dimitris>> [7] "ABM " "AFCE " "AG " "ATG "
<Dimitris>> Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a$tic?
<Dimitris>> Thanks,
<Dimitris>> Roger
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