Var1 is a list:
var1 <- list(c("Parts of a Day", "Time in Astronomy", "Star"), c("Tree Tall", "Pine Tree")) How to convert all the characters to lowercase? The desired answer is the following list:
var1 <- list(c("parts of a day", "time in astronomy", "star"), c("tree tall", "pine tree")) I used
as.list(tolower(var1)) But it gives the following answer with unwanted \
[[1]] [1] "c(\"parts of a day\", \"time in astronomy\", \"star\")" [[2]] [1] "c(\"tree tall\", \"pine tree\")" Thanks.
2 Answers
You should use lapply to lower case each character vector in your list
lapply(var1, tolower) # [[1]] # [1] "parts of a day" "time in astronomy" "star" # # [[2]] # [1] "tree tall" "pine tree" otherwise tolower does as.character() on your entire list which is not what you want.
Use gsub
gsub("/", "", var1) as.list(tolower(var1)) this will remove all your / out of your variable.
