character - R: substr() results differently in for loop and vector -

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i'm using substr cut off last 3 letters string list: postal_code0 

postal_code0 >[1] "n14be"   "n14be"   "n14be"   "n14be"   "n14be"   "n16dd"   "n16dd"   "n16dd"   "n16dd"   "n16dd"   >[11] "n11tw"   "n11tw"   "n11tw"   "n11tw"   "n11tw"   "n5"      "n160lu"  "n2"      "n200au"  "n200au"  >[21] "london"  "n15"     "n5"      ""      > outcode <- substr(postal_code0, 1, nchar(postal_code0)-3) > outcode [1] "n1"   "n1"   "n1"   "n1"   "n1"   "n1"   "n1"   "n1"   "n1"   "n1"   "n1"   "n1"   "n1"   "n1"   "n1"   [16] ""     "n16"  ""     "n20"  "n20"  "lon"  ""     ""     ""

it removes elements completely, i'd keep, if use loop same function, returns outcome i'd like.

> outcode0 <- c() > (i in 1: length(postal_code0)){ + outcode0[i] <- substr(postal_code0[i], 1, nchar(postal_code0)-3) + }  > outcode0 [1] "n1" "n1" "n1" "n1" "n1" "n1" "n1" "n1" "n1" "n1" "n1" "n1" "n1" "n1" "n1" "n5" "n1" "n2" "n2" "n2" "lo" [22] "n1" "n5" ""

what's difference between 2 functions? , how 

outcode0

without using loop?

according last comment left, following should do:

len <- nchar(postal_code0) substring(postal_code0, 1, ifelse(len <= 3, len, len - 3))

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