Re: [R] Changing Character Value

Perfect. Thank you so much.   Regards, Farnoosh Sheikhi On Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:16 PM, arun wrote: Hi Farnoosh, If I understand it correctly, dat <-read.table(text="Var1 Great>5 great 'less great<2' 'approx great11'",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)  dat$Var1 <- gsub(".*

Re: [R] Changing Character Value

Hi Farnoosh, If I understand it correctly, dat <-read.table(text="Var1 Great>5 great 'less great<2' 'approx great11'",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)  dat$Var1 <- gsub(".*(great).*","\\L\\1",dat$Var1,ignore.case=TRUE,perl=TRUE)  dat$Var1 #[1] "great" "great" "great" "great" A.K. On T