In the solution you cite, yes. In the second solution I provided in the subsequent (second) response to your question, no.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Rnewbie<xua...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > it works, but does that mean I really have to specify what to keep rather > than what to remove? > > > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >> Try something along these lines: >> >> gsub("[^[:alnum:][:space:],]", "", string) >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Rnewbie<xua...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I wanted to remove all punctuations except commas from a string. >>> >>> I used: >>> >>> gsub("[[:punct:]]", "", string) >>> >>> but I don't know how to exclude the commas ",". Anyone would kindly >>> answer >>> my basic question? >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://www.nabble.com/Remove-all-punctuations-except-commas-tp24845721p24845721.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. >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Remove-all-punctuations-except-commas-tp24845721p24848515.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.