Hi, Using your code: sub("[.]$",".1",sim.code) #[1] "1.1234.1a.1" "1.1234.1a.2" "1.3245.2c.5" "4.6743.3c.1" "4.3254.6b.4" #[6] "3.5463.2a.1" A.K.
----- Original Message ----- From: chris201 <chris.r.benn...@btinternet.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013 5:23 AM Subject: [R] Substitute value Hi, I have a large data frame and within this there is one column which contains individual codes (eg. 1.1234.2a.2). I am splitting these codes into their 4 components using strsplit (eg. "1", "1234", "2a", "2"). However there are some individual codes which do not have a last component (eg. 2.4356.3b. ), I want to give these codes a "1" as their last component (eg. 2.4356.3b.1) but I can't get it to work. This is my example and attempt: sim.code<-c("1.1234.1a.1","1.1234.1a.2","1.3245.2c.5","4.6743.3c.","4.3254.6b.4","3.5463.2a.") sim.val<-c(4,5,3,6,4,7) sim.df<-data.frame(sim.code,sim.val) sim.df$sim.code2<-sub(".$",".1",sim.df$sim.code) sim.df but this changes all the ends to ".1" Thanks, Chris -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Substitute-value-tp4660699.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. ______________________________________________ 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.