gsub will work on a column of a data.frame, not an entire data.frame. > gsub(pattern = "facebook-Ads1", "FBAds", DataGoogle1$Campaña) [1] "FBAds" "faceBOOK-Ads1" "fcebook-ads12" "Email1" "mail1" [6] "referral1"
Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Omar André Gonzáles Díaz <oma.gonza...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, i have this data.frame with 3 columns: "campaña", "visitas", > "compras". > > This is the actual data.frame: > > Campaña Visitas Compras > 1 facebook-Ads1 524 2 > 2 faceBOOK-Ads1 487 24 > 3 fcebook-ads12 258 4 > 4 Email1 8 7 > 5 mail1 224 2 > 6 referral1 147 7 > > And i want to replace all the entries on the "campaña" : > > from this: "facebook-Ads1" or this: "faceBOOK-Ads1"--> to this: "FBAds". > > These are my steps: > > 1) I load the CSV file into R: > > DataGoogle1 <- read.csv(file = "DataGoogle2.csv", header = T) > > 2) and then use: > > gsub("facebook-Ads1", "FBAds", DataGoogle1) > > But the result is not what i'm expecting: > > i get: > >> gsub(pattern = "facebook-Ads1", "FBAds", DataGoogle1) > [1] "c(2, 3, 4, 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)" "c(524, 487, 258, 8, 224, > 147, 87, 863, 145)" > [3] "c(2, 24, 4, 7, 2, 7, 5, 23, 14)" > > May you help me to understand why it is not working? Thanks! :D > > [[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.