[R] Removing trailing spaces

[Marc Schwartz]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 11:38 +1300, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> Some years ago when I used S-PLUS, I seem to remember, there was a
> discussion about a simple method of removing trailing spaces from
> vector elements.  I'd be fairly sure the same would work in R, but I
> can't find any mention of anything like it in the R archives or with
> help.search().
> 
> There are ways I could do it with substring(), but I seem to remember
> there was something more elegant.  I can find the strip function in
> the clim.pact package, but that trims everything after the first space
> which is not useful in this case.
> 
> Someone please refresh my memory.
> 
> TIA

See the final examples in ?sub

HTH,

Marc Schwartz