Message-ID: <551BF7AD-F94F-4557-9D8C-D56DACC65A5C@comcast.net>
Date: 2010-12-03T04:22:07Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: Replacing a period in a string
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin0uCOmfeWMmjH9hmjqaOm1sOcue+_+Hfswxdd_@mail.gmail.com>
On Dec 2, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Luis Felipe Parra wrote:
> Hello I have a sting of the form "12.084.547,17" which I would like
> R to
> understand as a number which has "," as the decimal separator, does
> anybody
> know how to do this?
>
If that is in a file then read.csv2 is the answer.
If it is in a string within the R environment, then perhaps
read.csv2(file=textConnection(robject_name))
Please do read the Posting Guide and post reproducible examples (or at
least unambiguous descriptions of the problem).
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT