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I would like to reduce all spaces longer than a single space in a string to a single space.

foo(" 1   2    3     4                 5 ")
[1] " 1 2 3 4 5 "
hrbrmstr
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Francis Smart
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    possible duplicate of [How to remove extra white space between words inside a character vector using R?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19128327/how-to-remove-extra-white-space-between-words-inside-a-character-vector-using-r) – hrbrmstr Apr 12 '14 at 01:40
  • Good point. I did not see that. – Francis Smart Apr 12 '14 at 06:32

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That would work:

gsub(' +',' ',foo)

:)

(edited to take into account Zach's comment)

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