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Replacing a period in a string
3 messages · Luis Felipe Parra, David Winsemius, Earl F. Glynn
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
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
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? thank you Felipe Parra [[alternative HTML version deleted]]