[R] Correct behavior of Hmisc::capitalize()?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Hi,

from example(capitalize) of the Hmisc package (v 0.8.3) you get:

> capitalize(c("Hello", "bob", "daN"))
[1] "Hello" "Bob"   "daN"

Is that "daN" correct?

If so, then this behavior that only *all lowercase strings*, which the
code indicates,  will be capitalized is not documented.

> Hmisc::capitalize
function (string)
{
    capped <- grep("^[^A-Z]*$", string, perl = TRUE)
    substr(string[capped], 1, 1) <- toupper(substr(string[capped],
        1, 1))
    return(string)
}
<environment: namespace:Hmisc>

There are also some misspelled words in help("capitalize").


> sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.1 Patched (2011-07-09 r56344)
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
[8] base

other attached packages:
[1] Hmisc_3.8-3     survival_2.36-9

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.14.0  grid_2.13.1     lattice_0.19-30 tools_2.13.1


/Henrik
(Hmisc maintainer cc:ed)