Use fixed = TRUE to turn off interpretation of special characters: gsub("W.m^{-2}", "W/m2", "abc W.m^{-2} xyz", fixed = TRUE)
2010/4/19 servet ahmet çizmeli <sa.cizm...@usherbrooke.ca>: > Hello, > > I have a stupid regexp question. I have a large data frame of strings. I would > like to convert all occurences of : > > "W.m^{-2}" > > to > > "W/m2" > > I make the following test : > > gsub(glob2rx("W.m^{-2}"), "W/m2", "W.m^{-2}") > > but it does not seem to work. I don't know how to do it otherwise as I could > never learn how to deal with the special characters (like .^{}) in regexps. > > Thanks from advance for your kindly help > servet > > ______________________________________________ > 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.