cap {cwhmisc}R Documentation

Functions for strings

Description

capply Apply function to elements in character vector (utility function) cap and capitalize change to capital letters. lower and lowerize change to lower case letters. CapLeading Capitalizes the first character of each element of a character vector

Usage

capply(str,ff,...)
cap(char)
capitalize(str)
lower(char)
lowerize(str)
CapLeading(str)
strReverse(str)

Arguments

str

a character vector.

ff

a function.

...

additional parameters for function ff.

char

a single letter.

strReverse

the reverse of str

Value

The same type as the argument.

Note

capply has been reverse engineered from the help page on strsplit. strReverse <- function(x) capply( x, rev )

Author(s)

Christian W. Hoffmann <christian@echoffmann.ch>

Examples

  # capitalize shows the use of capply
  cap("f")    # "F"
  capitalize(c("TruE","faLSe"))  # "TRUE"  "FALSE"
  lower("R")  # "r"
  lowerize("TruE")  # "true"
  CapLeading(c("all you ","need"))     # "All you " "Need"
  capply(c("abc", "elephant"), rev)  # "cba"    "tnahpele"

[Package cwhmisc version 6.6 Index]