Thanks Romain, works like a charm! Thanks David! Best, Andrej
On Jun 16, 10:15 pm, Romain Francois <romain.franc...@dbmail.com> wrote: > Le 16/06/10 18:54, Andrej a écrit : > > > > > Thanks David for your fast reply, but now I realized tat "string" is > > of type: > > >> class(string) > > [1] "jobjRef" > > attr(,"package") > > [1] "rJava" > > > so I get an error when i try with gsub or sub: > > >> sub("^.+\\t(\\d+)\\n.+$", "\\1", string) > > Error in as.character.default(x) : > > no method for coercing this S4 class to a vector > > "string" is a java object, you can get the character vector like this: > > > string$toString() > > but I bet there are other methods in the java class that would let you > access the information you are after without doing text demangling. Try > completion: > > > string$<TAB> > > replace <TAB> by the tab key, you should see the list of java methods > associated with the java class. you can also call .jmethods > > > .jmethods( string ) > > Romain > > > > > I think that there should be trivial solution, but... Any further > > idea? > > > Regards, Andrej > > > On Jun 16, 6:47 pm, David Winsemius<dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> On Jun 16, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Andrej wrote: > > >>> Dear all, > > >>> I'm trying to filter out the "number of leaves" (it should be 1 in the > >>> example below) from the following string: > > >>>> string > >>> [1] "Java-Object{J48 pruned tree\n------------------\n: 0 (15.0/3.0)\n > >>> \nNumber of Leaves : \t1\n\nSize of the tree : \t1\n}" > > >>> Any idea how to do that as simple as possible? Thanks in advance for > >>> any advice. > > >> ?sub # or ?gsub if you need more than one pattern matched (they are > >> on the same page). > > >> This should find the first occurrence of digits following a tab > >> terminated by a line feed and then return only the digits: > > >> string<- "Java-Object{J48 pruned tree\n------------------\n: 0 > >> (15.0/3.0)\n \nNumber of Leaves : \t1\n\nSize of the tree : \t1\n}" > >> sub("^.+\\t(\\d+)\\n.+$", "\\1", string) > >> [1] "1" > > >> The parens within the search pattern are matched to "\\1". Need to > >> double backslashed within patterns. > > >>> Regards, Andrej > > >> -- > > >> David Winsemius, MD > >> West Hartford, CT > > -- > Romain Francois > Professional R Enthusiast > +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr > |-http://bit.ly/98Uf7u: Rcpp 0.8.1 > |-http://bit.ly/c6YnCi: graph gallery collage > `-http://bit.ly/bZ7ltC: inline 0.3.5 > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://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.