Create uniformity in lowercasing and uppercasing values

Question

I have several columns that have values that are a mix of lowercase, uppercase, etc., letters. I'd like for the first letter of a word to be uppercase and the letters after to be lowercase.

An example of what I'd like:

phoenix        Phoenix
Little rock    Little Rock
AUGUSTA        Augusta

Another option `stringi::stri_trans_totitle(x)` – markus Apr 01 '20 at 22:24 — markus, Apr 01 '20 at 22:24

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 01 '20 at 22:13

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We could use gsub

gsub("\\b([a-z])", "\\U\\1", tolower(v1), perl = TRUE)
#[1] "Phoenix"     "Little Rock" "Augusta"

data

v1 <- c("phoenix", "Little rock", "AUGUSTA")

answered Apr 01 '20 at 22:13

akrun

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 01 '20 at 22:26

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You can use str_to_title from the stringr package:

library(stringr)

str_to_title(c("phoenix", "Little rock", "AUGUSTA"))
# [1] "Phoenix"     "Little Rock" "Augusta"

answered Apr 01 '20 at 22:26

Junitar

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Create uniformity in lowercasing and uppercasing values

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