Hi all, please excuse- I'm a complete newbie to R, so it's possible my question was asked a thousand times before, but I don't get it :-( I imported a CSV file via:
x=read.csv("test.csv",header=TRUE,sep="\t") In a column there are values with the dot-character (".") I want to replace with a commata: > x[9] V16 1 GPS LATITUDE 2 53.51982466427600 3 51.520379571037000 4 53.520745152837800 5 51.521750487103766 6 53.52067987059652 7 53.519504773664345 8 51.51861690180330 9 51.519100010776675 10 51.51905431150669 11 51.5193415632712 12 53.51927627894419 13 51.52073862461807 14 50.51989647613406 15 50.51789875702557 16 50.52051666456883 So I tried: > cat(gsub(".",",",x[9],fixed=T)) which outputs: c(111, 79, 81, 85, 87, 83, 78, 72, 75, 74, 77, 76, 84, 80, 70, 82, 112, 112, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 98, 95, 105, 92, 89, 94, 101, 103, 104, 107, 106, 108, 109, 110, 1, 1, 1, 100, 99, 102, 97, 96, 93, 91, 90, 88, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 16, 23, 25, 21, 22, 19, 20, 24, 17, 14, 15, 18, 1, 26, 28, 27, 30, 29, 32, 34, 39, 54, 57, 73, 44, 42, 56, 53, 49, 63, 52, 45, 55, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 65, 51, 61, 59, 86, 31, 67, 60, 35, 41, 38, 40, 33, 37, 36, 43, 62, 58, 64, 68, 69, 66, 50, 47, 71, 46, 48, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 13, 12, 11, 11, 7, 1, 1, 8, 9, 1, 4, 2, 5, 6, 1, 1, 1, 10, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1) The values in the column are still unchanged. What have I to do that the dot will be replaced with the commata? Thanks in advanced Paula ______________________________________________ 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.