Is there a simple method of changing text into 'Proper Ca se'

Mulholland, Tom wrote:

Yes and no. Given your response it appears that "Proper Case" is not a 
term
that everyone uses. In Excel there is a function "Proper" which in 
essence
changes "this line into something like this" into "This Line Into 
Something
Like This."

My look at casefold seesm to be that is is a wrapper of two functions to
change text into either Lower or Upper case.So my question is about 
how do
you just capitalise the first letter in each word.

Perl experts might do it differently, but the "R way" seems to be

 substring(x, 1, 1) <- toupper(substring(x, 1, 1))
 substring(x, 2) <- tolower(substring(x, 2))

Uwe Ligges

Thanks for your response.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Spencer Graves [mailto:spencer.graves at PDF.COM] Sent: Wednesday, 
14 May 2003 12:51 PM
To: Mulholland, Tom
Cc: ' (r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch)'
Subject: Re: [R] Is there a simple method of changing text into 'Proper
Case'


It's not obvious to me what you are asking, but I'm guessing that 
"casefold" might help.

hth.  spencer graves

Mulholland, Tom wrote:

I am probably just looking in the wrong place. I am sure there are a 
number of ways to do this. If anyone could point me in the right 
direction it would be very much appreciated.

Thanks