Hello, I have a file which contains a column with age, which is represented in the two following patterns
1. "007/A" or ''007/a" or ''7 /a" ..... In this case A or a means year and I would like to extract only the numeric values eg 7 in the above case if this pattern exits in a line of file. 2. "004/M" or "004/m" where M or m means month ...... for these lines I would like to first extract the numeric value of Month eg. 4 and then convert it into a value of years, which would be 0.33 eg 4 divided by 12. Can anyone help? Thank you -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Extracting-numbers-from-a-character-variable-of-different-types-tp4482248p4482248.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
