How to replace all commas with semicolon in a string
Thanks Ulrik and Bob for your reply. gsub worked for one column! If I want to replace the whole data frame, gsub doesn't seem to work. Any idea On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo at gmail.com> wrote:
use gsub() On Fri, 27 May 2016 at 17:12 Jun Shen <jun.shen.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
Dear list,
Say I have a data frame
test <- data.frame(C1=c('a,b,c,d'),C2=c('g,h,f'))
I want to replace the commas with semicolons
sub(',',';',test$C1) -> test$C1 will only replace the first comma of a
string.
How do I replace them all in one run? Thanks.
Jun
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