Re: [R] Replacing Period in String

2011-03-21 Thread Petr Savicky
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:49:05PM -0500, Sparks, John James wrote: > Dear R Users, > > I am working with gsub for the first time. I am trying to remove some > characters from a string. I have hit the problem where the period is the > shorthand for 'everything' in the R language when what I want

Re: [R] Replacing Period in String

2011-03-20 Thread Peter Langfelder
I think it is as simple as adding the argument fixed=TRUE to the function call. txt = "this. is. a. test." gsub(".", "", txt, fixed = TRUE) result [1] "this is a test" HTH, Peter On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Sparks, John James wrote: > Dear R Users, > > I am working with gsub for the firs

Re: [R] Replacing Period in String

2011-03-20 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Hi John, Try gsub("[.]","",txt) See "Extended Regular Expressions" in ?regex. HTH, Jorge * * On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Sparks, John James <> wrote: > Dear R Users, > > I am working with gsub for the first time. I am trying to remove some > characters from a string. I have hit the p

[R] Replacing Period in String

2011-03-20 Thread Sparks, John James
Dear R Users, I am working with gsub for the first time. I am trying to remove some characters from a string. I have hit the problem where the period is the shorthand for 'everything' in the R language when what I want to remove is the actual periods. In the example below, I simply want to remo