[R] Simple regex problem

[John Kane]

Thanks to Gabor Grothendieck  & Ted Harding.  both
solutions work very nicely.  



--- Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Try this (no gsub required):
> 
> as.chron(as.Date(xx, "%b %d, %Y"))
> 
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:49 PM, John Kane
> <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> > I am cleaning up some character data to convert to
> > dates using chron. The regex that I am using work
> fine
> > but there should be a better way to do this. Can
> > anyone suggest a cleaner bit of code than the
> gsub,
> > sub approach? Thanks
> >
> > #Test Run on dates.
> > xx <- c("May  1, 2007",
> > "May  2, 2007",
> > "May  3, 2007",
> > "May  4, 2007",
> > "May  5, 2007",
> > "May  6, 2007",
> > "May  7, 2007",
> > "May  8, 2007",
> > "May  9, 2007",
> > "May 10, 2007",
> > "May 11, 2007",
> > "May 12, 2007")
> > yy <- gsub(" +", "/", xx) ; yy
> > zz <- sub(",", "", yy) ; zz
> > library(chron)
> > ttdates <- chron(zz, format = c(dates =
> "mon/d/y"))
> >
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