yeah..that worked for me...thanks...!!
jholtman wrote:
>
> Here is a way of doing it:
>
>> x <- "1 2 $.05
> + 3 4 $1.05
> + 5 6 $23.56"
>> x <- read.table(textConnection(x))
>> x
> V1 V2 V3
> 1 1 2 $.05
> 2 3 4 $1.05
> 3 5 6 $23.56
>> # delete "$" and convert to numeric
>> x$converted <- as.numeric(sub("\\$", "", as.character(x$V3)))
>> str(x)
> 'data.frame': 3 obs. of 4 variables:
> $ V1 : int 1 3 5
> $ V2 : int 2 4 6
> $ V3 : Factor w/ 3 levels "$.05","$1.05",..: 1 2 3
> $ converted: num 0.05 1.05 23.56
>> x
> V1 V2 V3 converted
> 1 1 2 $.05 0.05
> 2 3 4 $1.05 1.05
> 3 5 6 $23.56 23.56
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 8:14 AM, mrafi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> hello respected ppl...
>> am a engg. student...i was trying to use R in statistical calculations
>> now the problem is..i imported a huge tsv file onto R...it has a column
>> which gives cost...and it has "$" with each numerical value in this
>> column...it is something like this..$.05,$.1,$.075...and so on..
>> R is reading it as "character vector"...
>> i tried using all the arguments but could only change it to a "factor"
>> i want to read it as numericals...and perform further operations..
>> i know it is a stupid problem but can any1 help me get outta this...
>> thank you all...!!!
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