Ok, I figured it out. My stupid mistake, should be \\b instead of \b. ________________________________
From: Tan, Richard Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:36 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: gsub does not support \b? Hello, can someone help? How come > gsub("\bINDS\b","INDUSTRIES","ADVANCED ENERGY INDS") [1] "ADVANCED ENERGY INDS" not ADVANCED ENERGY INDUSTRIES Thanks. Richard [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
