It depends on what you mean by striping the white space.  Here is an example
of how it might be done:

> x <- c("United Kingdom", "Europe", "United States", "a
longer         string")
> gsub(" +", "_", x)
[1] "United_Kingdom"  "Europe"          "United_States"   "a_longer_string"
>


On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Roland Rau <roland.rproject@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have several datasets and I want to generate pdf plots from them.
> I also want to generate automatically the names of the files. They are
> country-specific and the element mycurrentdata[1,1] contains this
> information.
>
> So what I do is something like this:
> pdf(file=paste(mycurrentdata[1,1], ".pdf", sep=""), width=...etc)
>
> The only problem I have is that some of the country names contain white
> space (e.g., "United Kingdom"). This is no problem for generating the pdf
> plots but it may become problematic during further processing (e.g. incl.
> the plots in LaTeX documents).
>
> Is there an easy function to strip white space out of character strings
> (similar to the strip.white=TRUE option in read.table/scan)?
>
> I'd appreciate any kind of help and I hope I did not miss anything
> completely obvious.
>
> Thanks,
> Roland
>
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