Oh, perfect. I was running
gsub(".sample.tif", "", avec).
your change
gsub("\\.sample\\.tif$", "", avec)
did it.
Thanks Sarah
*Ben Caldwell*
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the example you gave, all that has to be done is
> replace ".sample.tif" at the end of the string with "", which
> is easy.
>
> > avec <- c("SPI1.S1.str1.P3.sample.tif", "SPI1.S1.STR2.P1.sample.tif")
> > gsub("\\.sample\\.tif$", "", avec)
> [1] "SPI1.S1.str1.P3" "SPI1.S1.STR2.P1"
>
>
> If your real data are more complex, we need to know what they
> look like.
>
> Sarah
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Benjamin Caldwell
> <btcaldw...@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > I have some elements in a vector with extraneous information (e.g. file
> > name and sample IDs) that I'd like to strip from every element.
> >
> > For example, I would like "SPI1.S1.str1.P3.sample.tif"
> > "SPI1.S1.STR2.P1.sample.tif" to read "SPI1.S1.str1.P3"
> "SPI1.S1.STR2.P1".
> >
> > Will someone help me with the syntax in gsub? It needs to be something
> > like gsub("garbage", "everything except garbage" , dataframe,), I think,
> > but it's the "everything except garbage" that's giving me trouble.
> >
> > Thanks
> > *Ben Caldwell*
> >
>
> --
> Sarah Goslee
> http://www.functionaldiversity.org
>
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