Thanks I tried it with your values and it works, but when I try it with my values, plugging in "just" (not sure if i'm doing it right):
> as.numeric(gsub("\\$", "", ("just"))) This is what I get: [1] NA Warning message: NAs introduced by coercion Btw here are the values im wokring with under "just" [1] $23,060 $124,800 $125,000 $28,140 $24,000 $23,400 $24,000 $149,720 $92,000 $35,000 $35,430 $40,100 $10,000 $25,000 Levels: $10,000 $124,800 $125,000 $149,720 $23,060 $23,400 $24,000 $25,000 $28,140 $35,000 $35,430 $40,100 $92,000 -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/read-numeric-values-with-thousands-seperator-from-csv-file-tp1477704p1753432.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.