On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Petr PIKAL <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> wrote: > Hi > > r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 24.02.2010 16:55:49: > >> >> Petr, >> >> Removing the % signs by Ista's method works. However as I noted earlier, > I >> was hoping there was a more elegant solution which deals with percentage > and >> currency values without knowing about their presence beforehand. >> >> It's a shame that something which Excel deals with trivially is such a > hack >> in R. I'll try to delve deeper and write something which does this well. > But >> my knowledge is limited and I will probably come back for help. > > I believe that if you introduce a new class which could specify currencies > you could write methods for handling them. But it is beyond my knowledge > and somebody else has to answer it. >
Try adapting this example of using a custom class with read.table: https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-April/130912.html or this example of piping through tr to read.table: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e9/help/10/02/4324.html ______________________________________________ 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.
