The following link may be of interest. It shows a way to use gsub, but have it automatically applied while reading the data in rather than converting after:
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/Rhelp10/2010-February/229550.html -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Lee, Eric > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 9:49 AM > To: r-help@R-project.org > Subject: [R] remove commas in a number when reading a text file > > Hello, > > I'm running version R x64 v2.12.2 on a 64bit windows 7 PC. I'm trying > to read a text file using read.table where the values have a format > like "1,234,567". What I want is "1234567". Is there a quick way to > strip out the commas? I can use strsplit and paste, but the file is > quite large and would take some time. Thanks. > > Eric > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
