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Re: help with trucation

To: duo wan <duo_wan@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: help with trucation
From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves@pdf.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:01:19 -0800
Cc: s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
In-reply-to: <20050225012812.71980.qmail@web50807.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20050225012812.71980.qmail@web50807.mail.yahoo.com>
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)
cv <- c("Now is the time", "for all good")
substring(cv, 1,1)
[1] "N" "f"

Is this what you want? spencer graves

duo wan wrote:

Dear S-users:
I have a character variable with 100 records and now I want to read the first letter from each record into a new variable. how can I do it in S-plus? thanks, Vincent

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