Here is one more that works:
gsub("."," ","Start.Time", fixed = TRUE)
"fixed = TRUE" really helps in a lot of instances for removing specific
characters without accidently angering the regular expression gods.
Enjoy.
--- On Tue, 10/13/09, Dimitri Liakhovitski <ld7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Dimitri Liakhovitski <ld7...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [R] replacing period with a space
> To: "R-Help List" <r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 12:26 PM
> Dear R-ers!
>
> I have x as a variable in a data frame x.
>
> x<-data.frame(x=c("aa.bb","cc.dd.ee"))
> x$x<-as.character(x$x)
> x
>
> I am sorry for such a simple question - but how can I
> replace all
> periods in x$x with spaces?
>
> sub('.', ' ', x$x) - removes all letters to the left of
> each period...
>
> Thanks a lot for your advice!
>
> --
> Dimitri Liakhovitski
> Ninah.com
> dimitri.liakhovit...@ninah.com
>
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