You'll find it even more entertaining to realize that Frede's _previous_
position (at Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural
Sciences, Aarhus University) was quite a bit closer to yours. ;-)
-pd
On 03 Jun 2014, at 20:37 , Sarah Goslee sarah.gos...@gmail.com wrote:
, better than nuclear
power plants :-)
Best regards
Frede
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Emne: Re: [R] detect escape character
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 8:44 PM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote:
On Jun 3, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Dușa wrote:
Dear All,
I should be knowing this, but not get it right...
I'm a little surprised to see you ask this, too, but we each have lacunae in
our R knowledge, so I
Dear All,
I should be knowing this, but not get it right... For a string like this:
Man\Woman
I would like to detect the escape character \ and replace it with /.
Tried various ways using gsub(), but don't get it right yet. Any suggestion
would be highly welcomed...
Thank you,
Adrian
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Hi,
R uses \ as a metacharacter, so you need a non-intuitive number of \:
mystring - Man\\Woman
# \\ is a metacharacter and a \, so it's equivalent to \ in normal text
sub(, /, mystring)
Sarah
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Adrian Dușa dusa.adr...@unibuc.ro wrote:
Dear All,
I should
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Subject: Re: [R] detect escape character
Hi,
R uses \ as a metacharacter, so you need a non-intuitive number of \:
mystring - Man\\Woman
# \\ is a metacharacter and a \, so it's equivalent to \ in normal text
sub
With the right mental model, though, it can become intuitive. That is, keep in
mind that the R interpreter uses \ as a metacharacter, and so does the regex
library. You want to search for a \, which regex thinks is special, so you have
to escape it for regex functions (\\). Then, because R
On Jun 3, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Dușa wrote:
Dear All,
I should be knowing this, but not get it right...
I'm a little surprised to see you ask this, too, but we each have lacunae in
our R knowledge, so I hope this helps:
s - scan(what=) # Assuming you were asking about items coming
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