My apologies. I sent too soon!
I did a bit more digging, and found a solution on the R-help archives.
y <- gsub(" *\\([^)]*\\) *", "", x)
Jean
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Adams, Jean <jvad...@usgs.gov> wrote:
> R-helpers,
>
> I have a vector of character strings in which I would like to replace each
> parenthetical phrase with a single space, " ". For example if I start with
> x, I would like to end up with y.
>
> x <- c("My toast=bog(keep=3 no=4) and eggs(er34)omit=32",
> "dogs have ears",
> "cats have tails (and ears, too!)")
>
> y <- c("My toast=bog and eggs omit=32",
> "dogs have ears",
> "cats have tails ")
>
> I'm guessing that this can be done with gsub(), but I have never mastered
> the mysteries of regular expressions.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any pointers.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jean
>
> P.S. I'm using R version 2.15.2 on Windows 7.
>
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