[R] clipping off words inside a vector of strings

[Romain Francois]

Lemon Curry ?

sapply( strsplit( monty, " " ), function(x) {
   paste( substring(x,1,3), collapse = " " )
})

is a way to do it, ...
There is probably a better way to do that using the gsubfn package

Gonçalo Ferraz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a vector of strings (class character) with 6 elements (length  
> 6). I call it 'names'.
>
> "Graham Chapman"
> "John Cleese"
> "Terry Gilliam"
> "Eric Idle"
> "Terry Jones"
> "Michael Palin"
>
> And I want to turn it into another vector of strings called  
> 'shortnames' with the same length.
> The new vector should look like:
>
> "Gra Cha"
> "Joh Cle"
> "Ter Gil"
> "Eri Idl"
> "Ter Jon"
> "Mic Pal"
>
> I just want to clip the first three characters of each word inside  
> each string.
>
> Would anyone know how to do this quickly?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gonçalo
>
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