[R] how to transform string to "Camel Case"?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Pascal Oettli <kridox at ymail.com> wrote:
> There is an example of how to do do what you are looking for in ?toupper
>
Unfortunately this fails when NA values are present:
z <- c("R project", "hello world", "something Else", NA)
> tocapwords(z)
[1] "R Project"      "Hello World"    "Something Else" "NANA"


Liviu


> Regards,
> Pascal
>
>
> On 04/15/2013 03:50 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>> Given the following vector:
>>>
>>> (z <- c('R project', 'hello world', 'something Else'))
>>
>> [1] "R project"      "hello world"    "something Else"
>>
>> I know how to obtain all capitals or all lower case letters:
>>>
>>> tolower(z)
>>
>> [1] "r project"      "hello world"    "something else"
>>>
>>> toupper(z)
>>
>> [1] "R PROJECT"      "HELLO WORLD"    "SOMETHING ELSE"
>>
>> I saw the tocamel() function in 'rapport', but it doesn't do what I
>> want to achieve as it actually proceeds to camelCase/CamelCase the
>> strings:
>>>
>>> tocamel(z)
>>
>> [1] "RProject"      "helloWorld"    "somethingElse"
>>
>>
>> But how should I proceed to obtain Camel Case? Here's what I'd like to
>> get:
>> c('R Project', 'Hello World', 'Something Else')
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Liviu
>>
>>
>



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