I am new in R. I have a file. This file contains name of the companies. 'data.frame': 494 obs. of 1 variable: $ V1: Factor w/ 470 levels "3-d engineering corp",..: 293 134 339 359 143 399 122 447 398 384 ...
Problem: I would like to remove "CO" (As it is the most frequent word). I would like "CO" to removed from BOEING CO --> BOEING but not from SAGINAW *CO*UNTY INC*. * > text = c("BOEING CO","ENGMANTAYLOR CO","SAGINAW COUNTY INC") > gsub(x = text, pattern = "CO", replacement = "") [1] "BOEING " "ENGMANTAYLOR " "SAGINAW UNTY" Thanks in advance. - Sam [[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.