Thanks, Jorge, for another alternative.
Charles Annis, P.E. <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 <http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com> http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com _____ From: Jorge Ivan Velez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] gsub difficulty Dear Charles, Phil Spector answered your original question by using two different approaches, but here I'm going again :) x="your.string.is.here" gsub("[.]"," ",x) [1] "your string is here" HTH, Jorge On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Jorge Ivan Velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Deat Charles, Is this what you want? x=".xls" sub(".","",x) [1] "xls" HTH, Jorge On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Charles Annis, P.E. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings R-ians: I know what doesn't work but I don't know why, nor how to remedy things. I have a character string containing "." which I want to replace with " " gsub(".", " ", file.label) replaces the every character with a blank. However gsub(".xls", " ", file.label) replaces ".xls" with a blank as expected. It appears that "." is some kind of wild-card. How do I tell gsub that a period is just a period? Thanks. Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.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. [[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.
