names=c('Ajay','Vijay','Ra Jay','Jayesh')
class(names)
## [1] "character"
names[1]
## [1] "Ajay"
class(names[1])
## [1] "character"
substr(names[1],2,3)
## [1] "ja"
substr(names[3],3,nchar(names[3]))
## [1] " Jay"
paste(substr(names[3],3,nchar(names[3])),substr(names[2],3,nchar(names[2])))
## [1] " Jay jay"
tolower(names[1])
## [1] "ajay"
gsub(" ","",names[3])
## [1] "RaJay"