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
>


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