Thanks Ulrik and Bob for your reply.
gsub worked for one column!
If I want to replace the whole data frame, gsub doesn't seem to work. Any
idea
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.ster...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> use gsub()
>
> On Fri, 27 May 2016 at 17:12 Jun Shen <jun.shen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> Say I have a data frame
>>
>> test <- data.frame(C1=c('a,b,c,d'),C2=c('g,h,f'))
>>
>> I want to replace the commas with semicolons
>>
>> sub(',',';',test$C1) -> test$C1 will only replace the first comma of a
>> string.
>>
>> How do I replace them all in one run? Thanks.
>>
>> Jun
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