I have some elements in a vector with extraneous information (e.g. file name and sample IDs) that I'd like to strip from every element.
For example, I would like "SPI1.S1.str1.P3.sample.tif" "SPI1.S1.STR2.P1.sample.tif" to read "SPI1.S1.str1.P3" "SPI1.S1.STR2.P1". Will someone help me with the syntax in gsub? It needs to be something like gsub("garbage", "everything except garbage" , dataframe,), I think, but it's the "everything except garbage" that's giving me trouble. Thanks *Ben Caldwell* [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.