Re: [R] extracting characters from string

2011-02-11 Thread Soumendra
underscores. By using strsplit, we are using that pattern to our advantage. Kind of. :) Besides, breaking it up using strsplit will also give us the option to iterate through it, though it is not relevant it here. -- Soumendra Prasad Dhanee Quantitative Analyst, Neural Technologies and Software

Re: [R] extracting characters from string

2011-02-10 Thread Soumendra
or example. Of course, I would be wrong if Yan specifically wanted to find the string 12ab3. But in that case, he would have been asking for matching (and locating) that substring instead of extracting it. Regards, Soumendra -- Soumendra Prasad Dhanee Quantitative Analyst, Neural Tec

Re: [R] modifying user agent strings in http requests

2010-12-30 Thread Soumendra
that you probably care but data "acquistion" has come up here before). > Generally for confirmation, I don't know if Rcurl lets you get as well as set > UA, > I just point the request to a local echo socket ( this can be done in any > lanaguage, > I think I happen to ha

[R] modifying user agent strings in http requests

2010-12-26 Thread Soumendra
Hi all. How does one change user agent strings in http requests made in R? And how do I figure out what my current user agent string looks like? Thanks in advance, Soumendra -- Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them dow