regarding removing space from a string in r

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How to remove all whitespace from a string in R?

I have a string like

c<-"abc def gh"

I need to remove every space from this string and get sth lik

c<-"abcdefgh"

How do that in r?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 25 '12 at 16:15

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Use gsub():

gsub(" ", "", c)
gsub("[[:space:]]", "", c)

answered Sep 25 '12 at 16:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 25 '12 at 16:16

1

library(stringr)
str_replace_all(c, " ", "")

answered Sep 25 '12 at 16:16

Maiasaura

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