Thank you! :)
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com>wrote:
> To delete everything from the beginning of the string to and including
> the hyphen, use
> sub("^.*-", "", tmp)
>
> Sarah
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Fred G <bayespoker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi--
> >
> > I have three columns in an input file:
> > MONTH QUARTER YEAR
> > 2012-07 2012-3 2012
> > 2001-07 2001-3 2001
> > 2002-01 2002-1 2002
> >
> > I want to make output like so:
> > MONTH QUARTER YEAR
> > 07 3 2012
> > 07 3 2001
> > 01 1 2002
> >
> > I was having some trouble getting the regular expression to work. I
> think
> > it should be something like the following:
> > tmp <- uncurated$MONTH
> > *tmp <- gsub("[^-\\d\\d]","",tmp,perl=TRUE)*
> > *tmp[tmp=="-"] <- ""*
> > *curated$MONTH <- tmp*
> > *
> > *
> > tmp <- uncurated$QUARTER
> > *tmp <- gsub("[^-\\d]","",tmp,perl=TRUE)*
> > *tmp[tmp=="-"] <- ""*
> > *curated$QUARTER <- tmp*
> > *
> > *
> > *but it's not quite working. I want to be able to isolate any digits that
> > occur after the hyphen and to delete everything before and including the
> > hyphen. Would greatly appreciate any clarification anyone can provide.*
> >
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> >
> > ______________
>
> --
> Sarah Goslee
> http://www.functionaldiversity.org
>
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