?gsub()
Match the start (_) followed by anything (.*) and replace by ""
gsub("_.*","",Name)
Weidong Gu,
Department of Medicine
University of Alabama, Birmingham
1900 University Blvd., Birmingham, Alabama 35294
PH: (205)-975-9053
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On Behalf Of Qian R
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:56 PM
To: R-help@r-project.org
Subject: [R] substring
I have a data frame such as
Name
DISC1_5916
DABC2_789
ABCD_1234
I want to substring column Name so that
DISC1
DABC2
ABCD
...
Thanks.
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