Hello dear R-helpers,
I haven't been able to figure out of find a solution in the R-help archives
about how to delete all the characters contained in groups of parenthesis. I
have a vector that looks more or less like this:
myvector<-c("something (80 km/h, sd) & more (6 kg/L,sd)", "somethingelse (48
m/s, sd) & moretoo (50g/L , sd)")
I want to extract all the strings that are not contained in parenthesis, the
goal would be to obtain the following new vector:
subvector<-c("something & more", "somethingelse & moretoo")
I tried the following, but this pattern seems to enclose all that is included
between the first opened parenthesis and the last closed parethesis, which
makes sense, but it's not what I need:
subvector<-gsub("\\((.*)\\)","",myvector
Your help will be very appreciated.
Thank you,
Judith
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