There is no quote terminating the first argument and you need to add the backref = 0 argument so that it does not interpret the parentheses in the regular expression as back references.
Its not clear to me what the intention is here so there may be further changes needed but the ones above result in no error message. On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I swear this used to work: > > library(gsubfn) > strapply("S(AC,P)TVDK(8)EELVQK(8), ".[(].{1,2}[)]|.")[[1]] > > But somewhere along the update path it stopped ... now giving me this > > Error in base::gsub(pattern, rs, x, ...) : > invalid backreference 2 in regular expression > > Can't figure it out. What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks for any hints, Joh > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.