upFirst

From Hmisc v4.0-2 by Frank E Harrell Jr

Change First Letters to Upper Case

Changes the first letter of each word in a string to upper case, keeping selected words in lower case. Words containing at least 2 capital letters are kept as-is.

Usage

upFirst(txt, lower = FALSE, alllower = FALSE)

Arguments

txt: a character vector
lower: set to TRUE to make only the very first letter of the string upper case, and to keep words with at least 2 capital letters in their original form
alllower: set to TRUE to make every word start with lower case unless it has at least 2 caps

References

http://lanecc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=38483&sid=295540, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_publication_titles, http://titlecapitalization.com

Examples

upFirst(c('this and that','that is Beyond question'))

Documentation reproduced from package Hmisc, version 4.0-2, License: GPL (>= 2)

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