It's best if you make these things available to us using dput() in the future.
You're probably looking for the substr() function. Since _strings_ (not characters) in R are "primitive" (Not in the primitive/internal sense: just in the primordial sense) you can't subset them with the brackets operators: what you're doing is something closer to x <- 1:5 x[30: 35] Cheers, Michael On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear R People: > > Here is a goofy question: > > I want to extract the zip code from an address and here is my work so far: > >> add1 > results.formatted_address > "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA" >> add1[1][32:36] > <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> > NA NA NA NA NA >> str(add1) > Named chr "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA" > - attr(*, "names")= chr "results.formatted_address" >> > > What am I not seeing, please? > > Thanks, > Erin > > > -- > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.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. ______________________________________________ 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.
