Dear list,
I have two vectors:
x <- c("one","two")
y <- paste(rep(x,2),"blah")
I want to replace all occurrences of each element of x in y with
something else, so that y looks like this:
y
[1] "something else blah" "something else blah" "something else blah"
[4] "something else blah"
I can do this using a loop:
for ( i in 1:length(x) ) {
y <- gsub(x[i],"something else",y)
}
Surely, there must be a less kludgy way?
I tried looking at the different apply()s but am not getting anywhere,
partly because I lack the mental flexibility to combine the fact that
I am applying gsub() to y but now want to apply that to x ... erm. :/
Marianne
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R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
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