How to replace all commas with semicolon in a string
sapply(test, gsub, pattern=",", replacement=";")
C1 C2 "a;b;c;d" "g;h;f" ------------------------------------- David L Carlson Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77840-4352 -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jun Shen Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 10:21 AM To: Ulrik Stervbo Cc: R-help Subject: Re: [R] 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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