Hello, Try the following.
gsub("^0+", "", as.character(nCourse)) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 01-09-2013 21:41, Robert Lynch escreveu:
I have a variable that is course # nCourse <- as.factor(c("002A","002B","002C","007A","007B","007C","101","118A","118B","118C")) And I would like to get rid of the leading zeros, and have the following set ("2A","2B","2C","7A","7B","7C","101","118A","118B","118C") to paste() together with the department, "B","P","C" (bio, phys, & chem etc) I am stuck trying to figure out regular expressions, they are new to me. Thank You very much [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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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