[R] How to change letters after space into capital letters

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 13:31:00 CEST 2005


On Apr 11, 2005 6:22 AM, Wolfram Fischer <wolfram at fischer-zim.ch> wrote:
> What is the easiest way to change within vector of strings
> each letter after a space into a capital letter?
> 
> E.g.:
>  c( "this is an element of the vector of strings", "second element" )
> becomes:
>  c( "This Is An Element Of The Vector Of Strings", "Second Element" )
> 
> My reason to try to do this is to get more readable abbreviations.
> (A suggestion would be to add an option to abbreviate() which changes
> letters after space to uppercase letters before executing the abbreviation
> algorithm.)
> 

Look for the thread titled

  String manipulation---mixed case

in the r-help archives.




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