Hi Bob, I recommend doing some background reading on regular expressions[1] and using gsub().
Cheers Andrew [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 04:24:36PM +1000, Bob Green wrote: > > >Hello, > > I am hoping for advice as to how I could remove all words immediately > following the words 'Mr' or 'Mr.' in a csv file. For example, the > following phrases are included in lines of text (along with other Mr) > that could be anywhere in the file: "Mr Jones ate lunch" and "Mr > Smith was tied". > > > I want to remove the words Jones and Smith (etc) leaving the other > text intact. > > Any suggestions are appreciated, > > regards > > > Bob > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-6410 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/ ______________________________________________ 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.
