Thank you very much, gentlemen! On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 5:48 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 26 Jul 2016, at 23:28 , Dimitri Liakhovitski >> <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >> I have a string x: >> x <- c("x - 84", "y - 293.04", "z = 12.5") >> >> I want to remove all the non-numeric stuff from it. The following works: >> gsub("[^0-9]", "", x) >> >> However, it strips my numbers of "." >> >> Help - how could I do the same but leave the "." in? > > How about this? > >> gsub("[^0-9.]", "", x) > [1] "84" "293.04" "12.5" > > -pd > >> >> Thanks a lot! >> >> -- >> Dimitri Liakhovitski >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Office: A 4.23 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > >
-- Dimitri Liakhovitski ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.