> On 26 Jul 2016, at 23:28 , Dimitri Liakhovitski > <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello! > > I have a string x: > x <- c("x - 84", "y - 293.04", "z = 12.5") > > I want to remove all the non-numeric stuff from it. The following works: > gsub("[^0-9]", "", x) > > However, it strips my numbers of "." > > Help - how could I do the same but leave the "." in?
How about this? > gsub("[^0-9.]", "", x) [1] "84" "293.04" "12.5" -pd > > Thanks a lot! > > -- > Dimitri Liakhovitski > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.