There is also the fixed argument to gsub (read the help page!)
gsub('.', ' ','a.b',fixed=TRUE)
[1] "a b" -Don At 2:34 PM -0300 10/13/09, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
You need escape the period: gsub("\\.", " ", x$x)On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski <ld7...@gmail.com> wrote:Dear R-ers! I have x as a variable in a data frame x. x<-data.frame(x=c("aa.bb","cc.dd.ee")) x$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 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://*stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-helpPLEASE do read the posting guide http://*www.*R-project.org/posting-guide.htmland provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
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