gsub("\\*", " ",x)
should do. Please read about regular expression as used by gsub().
Uwe Ligges
On 20.04.2011 12:00, Ruby Chu wrote:
Hi There
I'm not very sure how to replace the stars in a character vector
For example:
a character vector (n rows by 1 col)
[1] "-27 -21 -25 -28**** ***** -29"
[2] "-27 ******** -28**** ***** -29"
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.
.
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.
.
[n] "-1***********************************"
I wish to replace all the *s with a blank, result as per below
[1] "-27 -21 -25 -28 -29"
[2] "-27 -28 -29"
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[n] "-1 "
I have tried to use gsub( )
like: gsub("*", "", x)
but doesn't seem to be working...please advise
Thank you
Ruby
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