[R] ?replace characters within vector data

[Simon Blomberg]

sub("xxx", "aaa", vectorx)

or maybe gsub, depending on your application.

Cheers,

Simon.

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 12:40 +1000, Alexander.Herr at csiro.au wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I want  replace characters within a vector. Outside R I could use sed,
> but I'd like to automate it in R. For example
> 
> vectorx
> xxxyyz
> xxxyyza
> xxxyyzzb
> 
> I want to change to: 
> 
> vectorx
> aaayyz
> aaayyza
> aaayyzzb
> 
> The obvious replace command only deals with whole data entries?
> Any hints would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Herry
> 
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