[R] remove numbers from string of characters

[(Ted Harding)]

On 18-Oct-10 14:58:05, Kurt_Helf at nps.gov wrote:
> Greetings
> I want to remove numbers from a string of characters that
> identify sites so that I can merge two data frames.
> For example, a site in one frame is called
> "001a Frozen Niagara Entrance" whereas the same site
> in the other data frame is called "Frozen Niagara Entrance".
> It seems to me the easiest thing to do would be to remove
> the numbers from the first data frame so the two will match.
> How do I go about removing those numbers?
> Thanks in advance.
> Cheers
> Kurt

Try something based on:

  X <- "001a Frozen Niagara Entrance"
  sub("[[:alnum:]]* ","",X)
  # [1] "Frozen Niagara Entrance"

Hoping this helps!
Ted.

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