[R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a character vector?

[cgb@datanalytics.com]

Quoting roger bos <roger.bos at gmail.com>:

> for example:
>> a$tic[1:10]
> [1] "AIR " "ABCB " "ABXA " "ACMR " "ADCT " "ADEX "
> [7] "ABM " "AFCE " "AG " "ATG "
> Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a$tic?
> Thanks,
> Roger
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> a <- c("ab ", "cd", "ef ")
> gsub(" ", "", a)
[1] "ab" "cd" "ef"

Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
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