Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from acharacter vector?
one way is to use strsplit(), i.e.,
xx <- c("AIR ", "ABCB ", "ABXA ", "ACMR ", "ADCT ", "ADEX ")
unlist(strsplit(xx, " "))
Best,
Dimitris
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Dimitris Rizopoulos
Ph.D. Student
Biostatistical Centre
School of Public Health
Catholic University of Leuven
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From: "roger bos" <roger.bos at gmail.com>
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Subject: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces
from acharacter vector?
for example:
a$tic[1:10]
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