[R] find numbers in a line with letters

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

library(gsubfn)
s <- "this item costs 3.32 Dollars"
strapply(s, "[0-9][0-9.]*", as.numeric)[[1]]

See http://gsubfn.googlecode.com for more info.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Martin Batholdy<batholdy at googlemail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> is there an easy way to extract numbers from a string?
>
> for example I have;
> "this Item costs 3.32 Dollars"
>
> is there an easy way to extract the 3.32 as a number?
>
>
> thanks!
>
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