Here is one way. This matches strings which contain those characters found in a number, converting each such string to numeric.
library(gsubfn) strapply(x, "[-0-9+.E]+", as.numeric) On 3/19/07, Robin Hankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > Is there a straightforward way to convert a character string > containing comma-delimited > numbers to a numeric vector? > > In my application, I use > > system(executable.string, intern=TRUE) > > which returns a string like > > "[0.E-38, 2.096751179214927596171268230, > 3.678944959657480671183123052, 4.976528845643001020345216157, > 6.072390165503099343887569007, 7.007958550337542210168866070, > 7.807464185827177139302778736, 8.486139455817034846608029724, > 9.053706780665060873259065771, 9.516172308326877463284426111, > 9.876856047379733199590985269, 10.13695826383869052536062804, > 10.29580989588667234885515374, 10.35092785255025551187463209, > 10.29795676261278695909972578, 10.13052574735986793562227138, > 9.839990935943625006580521345, 9.414977153151389385186358494, > 8.840562526759586215404890348, 8.096830792651667245232639586, > 7.156244887881612948153311800, 5.978569259122249264778017262, > 4.499809670330265066808481929, 2.602689685444383764768503589, 0.E-38]" > > > (the output is a single line). In a big run, the string may contain > 10^5 or possibly 10^6 numbers. > > What's the recommended way to convert this to a numeric vector? > > > > > > > -- > Robin Hankin > Uncertainty Analyst > National Oceanography Centre, Southampton > European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK > tel 023-8059-7743 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.