This is something that is easier done in C than in R (to the best of my very limited knowledge).
To do this in R you could do something like: > x <- "082-232-232-1" > y <-unlist(strsplit(x,"")) > i <- which(y != "0")[1]-1 > paste(y[-(1:i)],collapse="") [1] "82-232-232-1" --- On Fri, 1/8/08, calundergrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: calundergrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [R] cutting out numbers from vectors > To: r-help@r-project.org > Received: Friday, 1 August, 2008, 6:40 AM > i have a vector with values similar to the below text > [1] 001-010-001-0 > > I want to get rid of all leading zeroes. for example i > want to change the > values of the vector so that [1] 001-010-001-0 becomes [1] > 1-010-001-0. > > Another example > [1]082-232-232-1 becomes [1] 82-232-232-1 > > how do i do this? > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/cutting-out-numbers-from-vectors-tp18763058p18763058.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.
