[R] How to change letters after space into capital letters
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Mon Apr 11 17:28:05 CEST 2005
>>>>> "Gabor" == Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
>>>>> on Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:31:00 -0400 writes:
Gabor> 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.)
>>
Gabor> Look for the thread titled
Gabor> String manipulation---mixed case
Gabor> in the r-help archives.
Indeed! Thank you, Gabor.
If you use R 2.1.0 beta (which you should consider seriously as
a good netizen ;-), this is as simple as
> RSiteSearch("String manipulation---mixed case")
A search query has been submitted to http://search.r-project.org
The results page should open in your browser shortly
Martin.
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