[R] Replacing dot with empty space

Sergey Goriatchev sergeyg at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 13:37:57 CET 2009


Thanks, Gabor.
You are always very helpful.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:42, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, try these alternatives:
>
> sub(".", " ", x, fixed = TRUE)
> chartr(".", " ", x)
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Sergey Goriatchev <sergeyg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK, got it now:
>> sub("[.]", " ", "ED4.Comdty")
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:01, Sergey Goriatchev <sergeyg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello, everyone
>>>
>>> How do I replace dot with empty space in "ED4.Comdty"?
>>> I need to get "ED4 Comdty"
>>> tried sub() in many different ways, like sub({.}, " ", "ED4.Comdty")
>>> etc but could not do it.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Sergey
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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