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toCamelCase

Converts a string of words into a merged camel-cased word

Description

Converts a string of words into a merged camel-cased word, e.g. "a single espresso" is converted to "aSingleEspresso".

Usage

## Default S3 method:
toCamelCase(s, capitalize=FALSE, preserveSameCase=FALSE, split="[ \t]+", ...)

Arguments

s

A character vector.
capitalize

If TRUE, the first letter will be in upper case, otherwise it will be in lower case.
preserveSameCase

If TRUE, words that are in all upper case will remain as all same case words, e.g. acronyms.
split

A pattern used to identify words. See strsplit() for more details.
...

Not used.

Value

Returns a character vector.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

See Also

Examples

s <- "hello world"
print(toCamelCase(s))  # helloWorld
print(toCamelCase(s, capitalize=TRUE))  # HelloWorld
stopifnot(toCamelCase(s) == toCamelCase(toCamelCase(s)))

s <- "GEO Accession"
print(toCamelCase(s))  # gEOAccession
print(toCamelCase(s, preserveSameCase=TRUE))  # geoAccession
print(toCamelCase(s, capitalize=TRUE))  # GEOAccession
print(toCamelCase(s, capitalize=TRUE, preserveSameCase=TRUE))  # GEOAccession
stopifnot(toCamelCase(s) == toCamelCase(toCamelCase(s)))
R.utils

Various Programming Utilities

v2.10.1
LGPL (>= 2.1)
Authors
Henrik Bengtsson [aut, cre, cph]
Initial release

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