Thank you all for the useful responses. Problem solved!
J
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On 22/10/2008 5:02 PM, jonas garcia wrote:
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>> Dear list:
>>
>>
>>
>> I have the following problem: From a vector like this:
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>> vec<- c("mud_1999_area_A", "gravel_2004_area_F")
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>>
>>
>> I would like to get the year in a separate vector, such
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>> y<- c("1999", "2004")
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>> I´ve been looking to grep() but I'm not sure how to do this.
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>
> You want sub() or gsub(). For example, if the year is always the only
> digits in the string, then
>
> gsub("[^[:digit:]]", "", vec)
>
> (which says delete all non-digits).
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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