If your whitespace does not only contain regular spaces, this might also be useful:
x.1 <- "\t1 2 \n3 4" write(x.1, "test.txt") x.2 <- readLines("test.txt") x.3 <- gsub("[[:space:]]", "", x.2) x <- paste(x.3, collapse="") See ?regex for details on regular expressions in R. HTH, Janko On 05.05.2011 11:02, Ivan Calandra wrote: > Hi Joel, > > Try this: > x <- "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 " > gsub(" ", "", x) > > Ivan > > > Le 5/5/2011 10:50, Joel a écrit : >> Hi >> >> I got a string that looks something like this >> >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... >> >> and I want it to be >> >> 123456789... >> >> So I want to remove all spaces (or whitespaces) from my string. >> >> Anyone know a good way of doing this? >> >> //Joel > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Janko Thyson* janko.thy...@googlemail.com <mailto:janko.thy...@googlemail.com> Jesuitenstraße 3 D-85049 Ingolstadt Mobile: +49 (0)176 83294257 This e-mail and any attachment is for authorized use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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