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--- On Tue, 7/8/08, Kunzler, Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Kunzler, Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [R] Manipulate Data (with regular expressions)
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 7:11 AM
> 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
>
>
>
>
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