Dear Miao,
substr() ius waht you want.
substr("ABCD", 2,2)
[1] "B"
Cheers,
Henrik
jpm miao schrieb:
Dear Daniel and Jorge,
Thank you very much and it does help.
If I have a string "ABCD", how can I access the second element of the
string "B"? Thanks,
Miao
2012/7/27 Daniel Nordlund <djnordl...@frontier.com>
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Subject: [R] How can I access the title of a table read via read.csv?
Hi,
I have a table which I can read via read.csv:
fx1<-read.csv(file="A_FX_M.csv", header=TRUE)
TIME REER NTD JPY GBP HKD
1 198001 124.26 36.030 237.96 2.263980 4.8366
2 198002 126.59 36.030 244.05 2.290426 4.8765
3 198003 128.33 36.026 248.62 2.206045 4.9960
4 198004 127.85 36.063 251.67 2.215330 4.9760
5 198005 124.40 36.050 228.35 2.302026 4.8891
6 198006 124.64 36.028 218.05 2.336995 4.9017
7 198007 125.17 36.007 220.95 2.371917 4.9046
8 198008 128.87 35.966 224.45 2.369107 4.9360
.......................
How can I access the title of the table? For example, I would like
to access the character string "REER"; how can I do it?
Thanks,
Miao
Look at ?colnames.
colnames(fx1)[2]
Hope this is helpful,
Dan
Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA USA
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