On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:49:05PM -0500, Sparks, John James wrote:
Dear R Users,
I am working with gsub for the first time. I am trying to remove some
characters from a string. I have hit the problem where the period is the
shorthand for 'everything' in the R language when what I want to
Dear R Users,
I am working with gsub for the first time. I am trying to remove some
characters from a string. I have hit the problem where the period is the
shorthand for 'everything' in the R language when what I want to remove is
the actual periods. In the example below, I simply want to
Hi John,
Try
gsub([.],,txt)
See Extended Regular Expressions in ?regex.
HTH,
Jorge
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Sparks, John James wrote:
Dear R Users,
I am working with gsub for the first time. I am trying to remove some
characters from a string. I have hit the problem
I think it is as simple as adding the argument fixed=TRUE to the function call.
txt = this. is. a. test.
gsub(., , txt, fixed = TRUE)
result
[1] this is a test
HTH,
Peter
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Sparks, John James jspa...@uic.edu wrote:
Dear R Users,
I am working with gsub for the
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