Message-ID: <6E8D8DFDE5FA5D4ABCB8508389D1BF88D3E3D9@SRVEXCHMBX.precheza.cz>
Date: 2012-08-21T11:04:47Z
From: PIKAL Petr
Subject: reexpr transform nonumeric values to numeric
In-Reply-To: <EEB8053B-82F2-48F3-9F1E-D0393AADDCE7@gmail.com>
Thank you
I knew that somebody can use power of gsub better than myself.
Petr
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noia Raindrops [mailto:noia.raindrops at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 12:33 PM
> To: PIKAL Petr
> Cc: r-help
> Subject: Re: [R] reexpr transform nonumeric values to numeric
>
> Use backreference:
>
> as.numeric(gsub("^(.*)-$", "-\\1", as.character(temp)))
>
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