R Change Letters of All List Elements – Lowercase & Uppercase (2 Examples)

In this R programming post you’ll learn how to set the character strings in a list to lowercase or uppercase.

Creating Example Data

example_list <- list(LETTERS[21:15],    # Example list in R
                     c("LaLaLa", "lOlOlOOOO"),
                     "XXX",
                     "yyy")
example_list                            # Display example list in RStudio
# [[1]]
# [1] "U" "T" "S" "R" "Q" "P" "O"
# 
# [[2]]
# [1] "LaLaLa"    "lOlOlOOOO"
# 
# [[3]]
# [1] "XXX"
# 
# [[4]]
# [1] "yyy"

Example 1: Set List Elements to Uppercase Using lapply() & toupper() Functions

lapply(example_list,                    # Convert to uppercase
       toupper)
# [[1]]
# [1] "U" "T" "S" "R" "Q" "P" "O"
# 
# [[2]]
# [1] "LALALA"    "LOLOLOOOO"
# 
# [[3]]
# [1] "XXX"
# 
# [[4]]
# [1] "YYY"

Example 2: Set List Elements to Uppercase Using tolower() & toupper() Functions

lapply(example_list,                    # Convert to lowercase
       tolower)
# [[1]]
# [1] "u" "t" "s" "r" "q" "p" "o"
# 
# [[2]]
# [1] "lalala"    "lololoooo"
# 
# [[3]]
# [1] "xxx"
# 
# [[4]]
# [1] "yyy"

Related Articles & Further Resources

In the following, you can find some further resources on topics such as vectors, character strings, and data conversion:

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