Hi, Check ?gsub and the examples there. Here is a piece of code to get you started:
> s <- "sub_001" > gsub("sub_", "", s) [1] "001" HTH, Jorge.- On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:04 PM, york8866 <> wrote: > Hi, all, > > I have a column like the following: > ID TIME > sub_001 0 > sub_001 24 > sub_002 0 > sub_002 24 > sub_003 0 > sub_003 24 > sub_004 0 > sub_005 24 > .. > .. > > is there a way for me to just extract the numeric numbers from the ID > column, omitting sub_? > > thanks, > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/extract-number-from-a-mixture-of-character-and-number-tp4636659.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.