On Thu, 4 May 2006, Sean Davis wrote: > Just a quick question.... > > In perl, I can capture parts of a regex like /(\w)\/(\d)/ to get back $1 and > $2 containing the parts of the regex in parentheses. Is there a parallel in > R?
Yes. See ?gsub and especially the examples. This is not specific to Perl, and \1 and \2 are more commonly used, including in R. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [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
