gsub difficulty
Thanks! Charles Annis, P.E. Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: Phil Spector [mailto:spector at stat.berkeley.edu] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:30 PM To: Charles Annis, P.E. Subject: Re: [R] gsub difficulty Charles - Here are two ways:
string = 'one.two.three'
gsub('\\.',' ',string)
[1] "one two three"
gsub('.',' ',string,fixed=TRUE)
[1] "one two three"
- Phil Spector
Statistical Computing Facility
Department of Statistics
UC Berkeley
spector at stat.berkeley.edu
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
Greetings R-ians:
I know what doesn?t work but I don?t know why, nor how to remedy things.
I have a character string containing "." which I want to replace with " "
gsub(".", " ", file.label) replaces the every character with a blank.
However gsub(".xls", " ", file.label) replaces ".xls" with a blank as
expected.
It appears that "." is some kind of wild-card. How do I tell gsub that a
period is just a period?
Thanks.
Charles Annis, P.E.
Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
phone: 561-352-9699
eFax:? 614-455-3265
http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
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