Hmisc (version 4.1-0)

upFirst: Change First Letters to Upper Case

Description

Changes the first letter of each word in a string to upper case, keeping selected words in lower case. Words containing at least 2 capital letters are kept as-is.

Usage

upFirst(txt, lower = FALSE, alllower = FALSE)

Arguments

txt

a character vector

lower

set to TRUE to make only the very first letter of the string upper case, and to keep words with at least 2 capital letters in their original form

alllower

set to TRUE to make every word start with lower case unless it has at least 2 caps

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_publication_titles, http://titlecapitalization.com

Examples

# NOT RUN {
upFirst(c('this and that','that is Beyond question'))
# }