Practical Predictive Analytics

Compressing descriptions using camelcase

For long descriptions, sometimes it is beneficial to compress them into camelcase to improve readability. This is especially valuable when viewing descriptions that are labels on x or y axes.

Camelcase is a method that some programmers use for writing compound words, where spaces are first removed, and then each word begins with a capital letter. It is also a way of conserving space.

To accomplish this, we can write a function called .simpleCap, which performs this function. To illustrate how it works, we will pass it a two element character vector c("A certain good book","A very easy book"), and observe the results.