[R] removing last element from a character string

[Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen]

 > test <- "xyz"
 > nchar(test)
[1] 3
 > n <- nchar(test)
 > n <- n-1
 > substr(test,1,n)
[1] "xy"

Kjetil Halvorsen

Luis Rideau Cruz wrote:

>R-help,
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>Any function to remove last element (or any specific elemnet in the sequence) from a character string?
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>t<-c("aaab","qqqc")
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>>function(t)  ### remove last character (b and c respectively)
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>>aaa   qqq
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>Thanks
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