How to convert first letter into capital in single column data.table object in R using dplyr?

To convert first letter into capital in single column data.table object in R, we can follow the below steps −

• First of all, create a data.table object 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.table object

Let’s create a data.table object as shown below −

library(data.table)
Names<-
sample(c("rahul","rosy","hidayah","seema","john","sarbat","shaun","sam","teena","ila","kunal","sudha","anil","yukti","jerry","tom"),25,replace=TRUE)
DT<-data.table(Names)
DT

Output

On executing, the above script generates the below output(this output will vary on your system due to randomization) −

    Names
1:  teena
2:  teena
3:  seema
4:  shaun
5:  shaun
6:  hidayah
7:  rosy
8:  kunal
9:  tom
10: shaun
11: ila
12: rahul
13: sam
14: rahul
15: teena
16: jerry
17: yukti
18: rosy
19: anil
20: hidayah
21: shaun
22: seema
23: sudha
24: sam
25: anil
    Names

Convert first letter into Capital

Using sub function along with mutate function of dplyr package to convert first letter into capital in Names column −

library(data.table)
Names<-
sample(c("rahul","rosy","hidayah","seema","john","sarbat","shaun","sam","teena","ila","kunal","sudha","anil","yukti","jerry","tom"),25,replace=TRUE)
DT<-data.table(Names)
library(dplyr)
DT %>% mutate(Names=sub("(.)","\U\1",DT$Names,perl=TRUE))

Output

    Names
1:  Teena
2:  Teena
3:  Seema
4:  Shaun
5:  Shaun
6:  Hidayah
7:  Rosy
8:  Kunal
9:  Tom
10: Shaun
11: Ila
12: Rahul
13: Sam
14: Rahul
15: Teena
16: Jerry
17: Yukti
18: Rosy
19: Anil
20: Hidayah
21: Shaun
22: Seema
23: Sudha
24: Sam
25: Anil
    Names