Dear Everyone,
I try to automatically manipulate the data of a variable (class = factor) like x 220 220a 221 221b B221 Into two variables (class = numeric) like x y 220 0 220 1 221 0 221 1 221 1 y has to carry the information about the class (number or string) of the former x-Variable. I could do it by hand like x[x == "220a"] <- 220 y[x == "220a"] <- 1 but x has way to many expressions. So I wondered if I could use a regular expression like OR ANY OTHER WAY x[x == [0-9]{3}a] <- regular expression y[x == [0-9]{3}] <- 1 Thanks a lot [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.