Hello,
Just use ?sub.
x <- "35.84375_.100.71875"
y <- sub("_\\.", "_-", x)
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
Citando lily li <chocol...@gmail.com>:
> Thanks, but how to get the string like this:
> "35.84375_-100.71875" use the minus sign instead of dot.
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:38 PM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> just strip off the first character:
>>
>> a
>> [1] "X35.84375_.100.71875"
>> a.new <- sub("^.", '', a)
>> a.new
>> [1] "35.84375_.100.71875"
>>
>> Jim Holtman
>> Data Munger Guru
>>
>> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
>> Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 3:51 PM, lily li <chocol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi R users,
>>>
>>> I have a string for example 'X35.84375_.100.71875', and I have another
>>> dataframe df that I want to export with the transformed string name
>>> '35.84375_-100.71875' with no extension. How to do this in R? Thanks for
>>> your help.
>>>
>>> a = 'X35.84375_.100.71875'
>>> write.table(df, file='', row.names=F, col.names=F)
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