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

[Warnes, Gregory R]

If you are interested in trimming leading and trailing whitespace (and not
interior whitespace), you can use the 'trim' function from the 'gdata'
package.

-G


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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of roger bos
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:52 AM
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> Subject: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces
> from a character vector?
> 
> 
> 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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