I have a factor variable that is 6 digits and hyphenated. For example, 001-014.
I need to extract the first 3 digits to a new variable using mutate in dplyr - in this case 001 - but can’t find a function to do it. substr will do this for character strings, but I need the variable to remain as a factor. Is there an R function or workaround to do this? Ken [email protected] 914-450-0816 (tel) 347-730-4813 (fax) ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
