How to abbreviate long names in a dataframe for R?

Question

I\'m working with a dataframe that has really long names that is more than 25 characters. I\'m trying to make a bar graph (with plotly) with all of these organizations name,

Answer 1

dataframe.name$abbr is a vector of all abbreviations in the dataframe, not just a single name.

It is the reason all entries in dataframe.name$abbr are being set to NA; the last name is in the dataframe is 25 characters or less, so all entries in dataframe.name$abbr are assigned NA.

@brettljausn has a decent suggestion: just do away with the NAs completely and only truncate where the character count exceeds 25.

Something like this should work a treat:

dataframe.name$abbrv <- substring( dataframe.name$org_name, 0, 25 )

I would try to use abbreviate first though:

dataframe.name$abbrv <- abbreviate( dataframe.name$org_name )