You need escape the period: gsub("\\.", " ", x$x)
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski <ld7...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear R-ers! > > I have x as a variable in a data frame x. > > x<-data.frame(x=c("aa.bb","cc.dd.ee")) > x$x<-as.character(x$x) > x > > I am sorry for such a simple question - but how can I replace all > periods in x$x with spaces? > > sub('.', ' ', x$x) - removes all letters to the left of each period... > > Thanks a lot for your advice! > > -- > Dimitri Liakhovitski > Ninah.com > dimitri.liakhovit...@ninah.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. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O ______________________________________________ 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.