[R] How to strip everything after second whitespace?

[Linlin Yan]

Try this:
> gsub("([a-z]*\\s[a-z]*).*", "\\1", nam)
[1] "Smith John"  "Smith David" "Smith Ryan"

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:11 PM, johannes rara <johannesraja at gmail.com> wrote:
> How to split everything after second whitespace char using regular
> expression? I want to remove A, B, C and D from these names:
>
> nam <- c("Smith John A", "Smith David B C", "Smith Ryan C D")
>
> Thanks,
> Johannes
>
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