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Capitalize the first letter of each element of the string vector.
StrCap(x, method=c("first", "word", "title"))Returns a vector of charaters with the first letter capitalized
string to be capitalized.
one out of "first" (default), "word", "title". "first" will only capitalize the first character of a string. "word" will capitalize all found words and "title" will also capitalize wordwise, but leave out: a, an, the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, s, or and nor.)
Charles Dupont <charles.dupont@vanderbilt.edu>, Andri Signorell <andri@signorell.net> (methods word and title)
# capitalize first character
StrCap(c("Hello", "bob", "daN"))
# but not all...
StrCap(c("Hello bob, how are you?", "And you, DANIEL?"))
# wordwise
StrCap(c("Capitalize all words in titles of publications and documents",
"but Up and UP, not all and all", NA), method="word")
# wordwise omitting the ones listed above
StrCap(c("Capitalize all words in titles of publications and documents",
"but Up and UP, not all and all", NA), method="title")
# do not touch non alphabetic characters
z <- c("Lorem ipsum dolor", "-- sit amet", "consectetur --", " adipiscing elit ",
"sed,.--(do) / +-*eiusmod")
StrCap(z, method="title")
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