Hello,
Just use ?sub.
x <- "35.84375_.100.71875"
y <- sub("_\\.", "_-", x)
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
Citando lily li :
> Thanks, but how to get the string like this:
> "35.84375_-100.71875" use the minus sign instead of dot.
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:38 PM, jim holtman wrote:
>> ju
add another step: (need to learn about regular expressions)
> a
[1] "X35.84375_.100.71875"
> a.new <- sub("^.", '', a)
> a.new
[1] "35.84375_.100.71875"
> sub("_.", "_-", a.new)
[1] "35.84375_-100.71875"
>
Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru
What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
Tell me wh
Thanks, but how to get the string like this:
"35.84375_-100.71875" use the minus sign instead of dot.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:38 PM, jim holtman wrote:
> just strip off the first character:
>
> > a
> [1] "X35.84375_.100.71875"
> > a.new <- sub("^.", '', a)
> > a.new
> [1] "35.84375_.100.71875"
just strip off the first character:
> a
[1] "X35.84375_.100.71875"
> a.new <- sub("^.", '', a)
> a.new
[1] "35.84375_.100.71875"
>
Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru
What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 3:51
Hi R users,
I have a string for example 'X35.84375_.100.71875', and I have another
dataframe df that I want to export with the transformed string name
'35.84375_-100.71875' with no extension. How to do this in R? Thanks for
your help.
a = 'X35.84375_.100.71875'
write.table(df, file='', row.names=
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