Hi. Rui already gave you a solution.
Beside that you can, also, use substr function in this concrete example:
substr("LTA4H||Leukotriene A4 hydrolase", 1, 5)
This can be adjusted to rest of your data also, but you haven't provided
enough information.
Andrija
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Try
>
> txt <- "LTA4H||Leukotriene A4 hydrolase"
> pattern <- "\\|\\|.*$"
>
> gsub(pattern, "", txt)
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Em 06-06-2012 21:45, Bill Hyman escreveu:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Does any one know how to remove part of the string?
>>
>> For example, "LTA4H||Leukotriene A4 hydrolase" is a gene name plus gene
>> description. I hope to remove "||Leukotriene A4 hydrolase". What would be
>> the R code to do that using gsub()? Many thanks!
>>
>> Bill
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