Does the following do what you want? > raw <- c("A/B", " /B", "A/", "/ ") > tmp <- sub("^ */", "./", raw) > cleaned <- sub("/ *$", "/.", tmp) > cleaned [1] "A/B" "./B" "A/." "./."
(The " *" is to allow optional spaces before or after the slash.) Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Kate Ignatius <kate.ignat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have genetic information for several thousand individuals: > > A/T > T/G > C/G etc > > For some individuals there are some genotypes that are like this: A/, > C/, T/, G/ or even just / which represents missing and I want to > change these to the following: > > A/ A/. > C/ C/. > G/ G/. > T/ T/. > / ./. > /A ./A > /C ./C > /G ./G > /T ./T > > I've tried to use gsub with a command like the following: > > gsub("A/","[A/.]", GT[,6]) > > but if genotypes arent like the above, the command will change it to > look something like: > > A/.T > T/.G > C/.G > > Is there anyway to be more specific in gsub? > > Thanks! > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.