Hi Lisa,
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Lisa <lisa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I just want to determine if the characters in a character string are the
> same or not. For example,
>
> temp <- c("aa", "aA", "ab")
>
> How do I determine the first one have the two same “a”, and the second and
> third have the different characters? Thanks in advance.
Is this what you're looking for?
testchar <- function(x)
{
substring(x, 1, 1) == substring(x, 2, 2)
}
> testchar("aa")
[1] TRUE
> testchar("aB")
[1] FALSE
>
>
> temp <- c("aa", "aA", "ab")
>
> sapply(temp, testchar)
aa aA ab
TRUE FALSE FALSE
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