Replacing a period in a string

What about this?

Remove the periods and change the "," to a ".":

s <- "12.084.547,17"
x <- as.numeric(gsub(',','\\.', gsub('\\.','',s)))

options(digits=10)
x

Escaping periods is not-so-obvious.

efg

Earl F Glynn
Overland Park, KS

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?

thank you

Felipe Parra

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