Message-ID: <1301931690007-3425855.post@n4.nabble.com>
Date: 2011-04-04T15:41:30Z
From: Dieter Menne
Subject: replace last 3 characters of string
In-Reply-To: <000001cbf258$637e5a60$2a7b0f20$@jacobs@figurestofacts.be>
Bert Jacobs-2 wrote:
>
> I would like to replace the last tree characters of the values of a
> certain
> column in a dataframe.
>
>
Besides the mentioned standard method: I found the subset of string
operations in Hadley Wickhams stringr package helpful. They have a much more
consistent interface compared to the standard interface.
str_sub: accepts negative positions, which are calculated from the left of
the last character.
Dieter
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