Yes, this is how it should be done!
--- On Fri, 1/8/08, Christos Hatzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Christos Hatzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [R] cutting out numbers from vectors
> To: "'calundergrad'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, r-help@r-project.org
> Received: Friday, 1 August, 2008, 2:11 PM
> Have a look at gsub:
>
> > x <- "001-010-001-0"
> > gsub("^0+", "", x)
> [1] "1-010-001-0"
>
> -Christos
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> calundergrad
> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:40 PM
> > To: r-help@r-project.org
> > Subject: [R] cutting out numbers from vectors
> >
> >
> > 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?
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