"+" is a special character in regular expressions that requires a preceding pattern to apply to. See ?base::regex. You need to escape the special with a backslash to remove the special behavior, and escape the backslash so the R parser will be happy.
str_extract("+proj=utm +zone=19 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0", "\\+proj=[a-zA-Z0-9]*") Please read and follow the Posting Guide, including sending your emails using plain text instead of HTML. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On August 13, 2015 11:55:36 AM PDT, Mauricio Romero <mauricioromerolond...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I'm running R 3.2.1 and im having an unexpected problem... when I run >the >follwing code it returns an error > >library(stringr) >str_extract("+proj=utm +zone=19 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs >+ellps=WGS84 >+towgs84=0,0,0", "+proj=[a-zA-Z0-9]*") > >But I can't find whats wrong with my code. > >Thanks > >Mauricio > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.