Re: [R] Replacing a period in a string

2010-12-02 Thread Earl F Glynn
What about this? Remove the periods and change the "," to a ".": s <- "12.084.547,17" x <- as.numeric(gsub(',','\\.', gsub('\\.','',s))) options(digits=10) x Escaping periods is not-so-obvious. efg Earl F Glynn Overland Park, KS Luis Felipe Parra wrote: Hello I have a sting of the form "12

Re: [R] Replacing a period in a string

2010-12-02 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 2, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Luis Felipe Parra wrote: Hello I have a sting of the form "12.084.547,17" which I would like R to understand as a number which has "," as the decimal separator, does anybody know how to do this? If that is in a file then read.csv2 is the answer. If it is in a

[R] Replacing a period in a string

2010-12-02 Thread Luis Felipe Parra
Hello I have a sting of the form "12.084.547,17" which I would like R to understand as a number which has "," as the decimal separator, does anybody know how to do this? thank you Felipe Parra [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-p