Try this:
Transactions$Symbol <- gsub('[ -]*','INST',Transactions$Symbol)
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Robert Nicholson <
robert.nichol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I have Transactions as a dataframe and Transactions$Symbol is a column
> in the frame
>
> I simply want to run sub over all elements in that column where the new
> value replaces the old value
>
> this doesn't seem to work
>
> Transactions$Symbol = lapply(Transactions$Symbol, function(x) sub('[
> -]*','INST',x))
> >
> > Transactions$Symbol
> NULL
>
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