Hi Mike, try substr()
Cheers Andrew On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 03:53:58PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > The R "cut" command is entirely different from the UNIX "cut" command. > The latter retains selected fields in a line of text. I can do that kind > of manipulation using sub() or gsub(), but it is tedious. I assume there > is an R function that will do this, but I don't know its name. Can you > tell me? > > I'm also guessing that there is a web page somewhere that will tell me how > to do a lot of common GNU/UNIX/Linux "text util" commmand-line kinds of > things in R. By that I mean by using R functions, not by making system > calls. Does anyone know of such a web page? > > Thanks in advance. > > Mike > > -- > Michael B. Miller, Ph.D. > Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research > Department of Psychology > University of Minnesota > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Andrew Robinson Program Manager, ACERA Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-6410 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia (prefer email) http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 http://www.acera.unimelb.edu.au/ Forest Analytics with R (Springer, 2011) http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/FAwR/ Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation using R (CRC, 2009): http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/spuRs/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
