Hi, Use ?paste() dat1<- read.table(text="name value central -10.91699497 western -10.16521404 upper -6.915860837 lower -6.546794281 southern -6.382722608",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
number1 <- c(1,3,2,4,5) dat1[,1] <- paste0(number1,dat1[,1]) A.K. On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 11:31 PM, Kristi Glover <kristi.glo...@hotmail.com> wrote: Hi R user, I have been struggling to add number in front of text. It mus t be easy. but I could not figure it out. example I have this data: name value central -10.91699497 western -10.16521404 upper -6.915860837 lower -6.546794281 southern -6.382722608 I want to following. I want to add number in front of text. The number are not in sequence. name value 1central -10.91699497 3western -10.16521404 2upper -6.915860837 4lower -6.546794281 5southern -6.382722608 How can we find something in a table and replace by something in R? It could be easy in R but my data is so big so that Excel does not open the file. I would really appreciate your help. [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.