Try
as.numeric(sub(".*\\(","", sub('\\)','',aa)))
You may also want to look at regexec/regmatches for a more general approach ...
On 02 Mar 2014, at 20:55, Doran, Harold <hdo...@air.org> wrote:
> "1 (472)" "2 (445)" "3 (431)" "3 (431)" "5 (415)" "6 (405)" "7 (1)
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