Constant Depièreux wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a data crunching program which causes me a problem.
>
> Some of the data are identified with an & sign followed by a integer.
> No problem is experienced when analysing data below &500, but value
> above are ignored.
>
> Is there some limitation in R on this topic?
>
Hi Constant,
As Ted replied, the question is somewhat mysterious. Are these data from
something like MS VBA code, where variable types can be specified with a
number of prefixed symbols?
If it is just a quirk of the data format and you know that the ampersand
is always followed by an integer (or a float or a double...) you could
just discard the ampersand when reading the data file.
gsub("&","",incoming_data)
Fancier substitutions that will not discard ampersands that are needed
are left to someone with a head for regular expressions
Jim
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