[R] gsub() issue...

Andrew Robinson A.Robinson at ms.unimelb.edu.au
Wed May 18 00:58:56 CEST 2011


Hi Charles,

It's not clear to me what you mean by "doesn't work".

> test <- "Interesting 1\nPoint\n"
> cat(test)
Interesting 1
Point
> test1 <- gsub("ing 1\nP","ing 3\nP", test)
> cat(test1)
Interesting 3
Point
> 

Cheers

Andrew

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:45:31AM +0200, Thibault Charles wrote:
> Hello R helpers,
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> I get a problem using gsub() function.
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> I have the following text :
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> text <- ?? INFILTRATION INF_BASE 
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>  AIRCHANGE=1 ??
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> Then my code is :
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> original <- "INFILTRATION INF_BASE \n AIRCHANGE=1"
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> replace <- "INFILTRATION INF_BASE \n AIRCHANGE=3"
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> new_texte <- gsub(original,replace,text)
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> but it doesn?t work.
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> Nevertheless, cat(original) works but print(original) doesn?t?
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> Would you have an idea ?
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> Thanks
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> Thibault Charles
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