Function that returns the last n characters from a (vector of) character string(s)

Function that returns the last n characters from (vector of) character string(s).

strTail(
        string,
        n_char=1)

Arguments

string	Character string or vector of character strings.
n_char	Number of characters to take from the tail (starting at the last character) of the string (or vector of strings). Defaults to 1.

Details

Typical use of the function is return just the last few characters of a character string.

Value

Function returns a character string (vector) consisting of the last n_char of the character string (vector of character strings).

Examples

strTail(state.name, 2) ### Last two characters of each state name
#>  [1] "ma" "ka" "na" "as" "ia" "do" "ut" "re" "da" "ia" "ii" "ho" "is" "na" "wa"
#> [16] "as" "ky" "na" "ne" "nd" "ts" "an" "ta" "pi" "ri" "na" "ka" "da" "re" "ey"
#> [31] "co" "rk" "na" "ta" "io" "ma" "on" "ia" "nd" "na" "ta" "ee" "as" "ah" "nt"
#> [46] "ia" "on" "ia" "in" "ng"