Extracting first letter from specific vector in dataset in R
I am working in R with a babyname dataset.
The data set contains a column called name: babies1900$name
.
I know how to extract the last letter from each row in vector name.
last.letter.1900 <- substr(babies1900$name, nchar(babies1900$name),
开发者_如何学Python nchar(babies1900$name))
I was interested in doing the same for the first letter for a dataset from a different year. This is what I did, but am wondering if there a more "elegant" way of doing it.
x = babies2009$name
x = nchar(x)
y= x + 1
z = y -x
z =
[1] 1
babies.test = substr(babies2009$name, z, z)
This totally works, but is there a different way?
I might not get the question, but:
substr(babies2009$name, 1, 1)
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