Possibly just a typo:
> gsub('\\[.*\\]', '', myCharVec)
^^
[1] "" "(the rain in spain)"
HTH,
-- David
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I'm having trouble achieving the results I want using a regular
expression.
I want to eliminate all characters that fall within square brackets as
well
as the brackets themselves, returning an "". I'm not sure if it's R's
use of
double slash escapes or something else that is tripping me up. If I only
use
one slash I get
1: '\[' is an unrecognized escape in a character string
2: '\]' is an unrecognized escape in a character string
3: unrecognized escapes removed from "\[*.\]"
Below is my self-contained code followed by sessionInfo().
Thanks in advance for your help. I'm going to be doing a lot of text
mining
in the near future. I have an excellent O'Reilly book on regex's. What
is
the best reference for R's special treatment of these animals?
Mark
myCharVec <- c("[the rain in spain]", "(the rain in spain)")
gsub('\\[*.\\]', '', myCharVec)
#what I get
# [1] "[the rain in spai" "(the rain in spain)"
#what I want
[1] "" "(the rain in spain)"
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-08-12 r49193)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base
other attached packages:
[1] RWeka_0.3-20 tm_0.4
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.10.0 rJava_0.6-3 slam_0.1-3
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