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> Hi R, > > > > May be a trivial question, but struggling to find a solution... > > > > v=data.frame(a=c("1,234","2,345","5,567")) > > > v > > a > > 1 1,234 > > 2 2,345 > > 3 5,567 > > > > I need a column 'b', which is just the addition of column 'a' with 5. > How do I do it? And, entries in column 'a' are with commas, always. > Also, class(v$a)=factor. something like > v$b <- as.numeric(gsub(",", ".", v$a)) + 5 > v a b 1 1,234 6.234 2 2,345 7.345 3 5,567 10.567 Regards Petr > > > > BR, Shubha > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.