Hi Mat,

Try that:
gsub("[A-Za-z]", "", df$A)

This is a regular expression that looks for all characters (A to Z and a to z) and replaces it with nothing ("")
You will need to convert the column to numeric after this operation.

HTH,
Ivan

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Le 19/05/14 15:00, Mat a écrit :
Hello togehter,

i have a litte problem to convert a data.frame. My data.frame looks like
this one
       A
1  R5000
2  R4800
3  R4700
4  3500
5  3800

I need now a command, which outputs all the numbers, without the character
in front.
The solution look like this one:
A
1  5000
2  4800
3  4700
4  3500
5  3800

Thanks.

Best regards. Mat



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