Capitalize a column of characters

Asked Apr 11 '18 at 13:06

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I have a dataframe where one of the columns shows the names of some counties in lowercase, sometimes with double spaces. For example:

df$counties
# [1] "san diego county"  "napa   county"  "san   francisco county"

I need to capitalize each of the words and eliminate any multiple spaces. That is, I aim for this result:

df$counties
# [1]"San Diego County"  "Napa County"  "San Francisco County"

Would appreciate any kind advice.

edited Apr 11 '18 at 13:27

asked Apr 11 '18 at 13:06

Manuel Villa

see, in particular, this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/6365349/1017276 – Benjamin Apr 11 '18 at 13:08
Thank you, @Benjamin & Cath. Indeed this was a duplicate question and now I have my answer. Cheers! – Manuel Villa Apr 11 '18 at 13:30

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