[R] Is there a simple method of changing text into 'Proper Ca se'

[Spencer Graves]

Excellent.  Users concered about transportability to S-Plus would have 
to translate "toupper" and "tolower" into "casefold", however.

Spencer Graves

Uwe Ligges wrote:
> Mulholland, Tom wrote:
> 
>> Yes and no. Given your response it appears that "Proper Case" is not a 
>> term
>> that everyone uses. In Excel there is a function "Proper" which in 
>> essence
>> changes "this line into something like this" into "This Line Into 
>> Something
>> Like This."
>>
>> My look at casefold seesm to be that is is a wrapper of two functions to
>> change text into either Lower or Upper case.So my question is about 
>> how do
>> you just capitalise the first letter in each word.
> 
> 
> Perl experts might do it differently, but the "R way" seems to be
> 
>  substring(x, 1, 1) <- toupper(substring(x, 1, 1))
>  substring(x, 2) <- tolower(substring(x, 2))
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
>> Thanks for your response.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Spencer Graves [mailto:spencer.graves at PDF.COM] Sent: Wednesday, 
>> 14 May 2003 12:51 PM
>> To: Mulholland, Tom
>> Cc: ' (r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch)'
>> Subject: Re: [R] Is there a simple method of changing text into 'Proper
>> Case'
>>
>>
>> It's not obvious to me what you are asking, but I'm guessing that 
>> "casefold" might help.
>>
>> hth.  spencer graves
>>
>> Mulholland, Tom wrote:
>>
>>> I am probably just looking in the wrong place. I am sure there are a 
>>> number of ways to do this. If anyone could point me in the right 
>>> direction it would be very much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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