Re: [R] problem with sub()

2012-06-10 Thread Petr Savicky
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:44:33AM -0700, t_o_b_y wrote: > Dear R users: > > > > I want to convert some character vectors into numeric vectors. > > > head(price) > [1] "15450 EUR" "7900 EUR" "13800 EUR" "3990 EUR" "4500 EUR" > [6] "4250 EUR" > > >head(mileage) > [1] "21000 km" "119000 km"

Re: [R] problem with sub()

2012-06-10 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, Works with me. x <- c("21000 km", "119000 km", "36600 km", "92000 km", "140200 km", "9 km") sub("[[:blank:]]*km", "", x) as.numeric(sub("km", "", x)) # for numeric, don't worry with blanks Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 10-06-2012 19:44, t_o_b_y escreveu: Dear R users: I w

[R] problem with sub()

2012-06-10 Thread t_o_b_y
Dear R users: I want to convert some character vectors into numeric vectors. > head(price) [1] "15450 EUR" "7900 EUR" "13800 EUR" "3990 EUR" "4500 EUR" [6] "4250 EUR" >head(mileage) [1] "21000 km" "119000 km" "36600 km" "92000 km" "140200 km" [6] "9 km" in the first example I can us