Try this: gsub("X\\.\\.", "", x$names)
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski < dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am sorry, I'd like to split my column ("names") such that all the > beginning of a string ("X..") is gone and only the rest of the text is > left. > > x<-data.frame(names=c("X..aba","X..abb","X..abc","X..abd")) > x$names<-as.character(x$names) > (x) > str(x) > > Can't figure out how to apply strsplit in this situation - without > using a loop. I hope it's possible to do it without a loop - is it? > > Thanks a lot! > > > -- > Dimitri Liakhovitski > Ninah Consulting > www.ninah.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. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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