I want to extract the last 3 letters of a string. So far, I've done this:
> symbol = 'XYZ.VX" > substr(symbol,nchar(symbol)-2,nchar(symbol)) [1] ".VX" It works, but the code looks UGLY as hell. Am I missing something? Or is this the way it's supposed to be? Thanks, Sergio On 10/15/07, pintinho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > When I try to import data do R, the following message appears: "\Uxxxxxxxx > sequences are not supported on Windows". > > I tried lots of methods to import (read.csv, read.table, RODBC, read.delim) > and the same message appears for all these methods. I think it is a bigger > problem. > > Can anyone help me solving this issue? > > Thanks a lot. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/ERROR-while-importing-data-tf4628752.html#a13216707 > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.