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How to convert first letter into capital in single column data frame in R using dplyr?
To convert first letter into capital in single column data frame in R, we can follow the below steps −
First of all, create a data frame with string column.
Then, use sub function along with mutate function of dplyr package to convert first letter into capital in string column.
Example
Create the data frame
Let’s create a data frame as shown below −
Names<- sample(c("rahul","rosy","hidayah","seema","john","sarbat","shaun","sam","teena","ila","kunal"),25,replace=TRUE) df<-data.frame(Names) df
Output
On executing, the above script generates the below output(this output will vary on your system due to randomization) −
Names 1 teena 2 shaun 3 kunal 4 rosy 5 sam 6 teena 7 hidayah 8 teena 9 sarbat 10 kunal 11 sam 12 teena 13 kunal 14 rosy 15 hidayah 16 sam 17 shaun 18 seema 19 rosy 20 john 21 seema 22 ila 23 john 24 shaun 25 rosy
Convert first letter into Capital
Using sub function along with mutate function of dplyr package to convert first letter into capital in Names column −
Names<- sample(c("rahul","rosy","hidayah","seema","john","sarbat","shaun","sam","teena","ila","kunal"),25,replace=TRUE) df<-data.frame(Names) library(dplyr) df %>% mutate(Names=sub("(.)","\U\1",df$Names,perl=TRUE))
Output
Names 1 John 2 Hidayah 3 Teena 4 Sam 5 John 6 Rosy 7 Rahul 8 Teena 9 Sarbat 10 Kunal 11 Kunal 12 Rahul 13 Rosy 14 Sarbat 15 Shaun 16 Kunal 17 Teena 18 Hidayah 19 Sam 20 Sam 21 Sarbat 22 Seema 23 Rahul 24 Shaun 25 John
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