[R] How to replace all commas with semicolon in a string

[David L Carlson]

> sapply(test, gsub, pattern=",", replacement=";")
       C1        C2 
"a;b;c;d"   "g;h;f" 

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David L Carlson
Department of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77840-4352

-----Original Message-----
From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jun Shen
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 10:21 AM
To: Ulrik Stervbo
Cc: R-help
Subject: Re: [R] How to replace all commas with semicolon in a string

Thanks Ulrik and Bob for your reply.

gsub worked for one column!

If I want to replace the whole data frame, gsub doesn't seem to work. Any
idea

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> use gsub()
>
> On Fri, 27 May 2016 at 17:12 Jun Shen <jun.shen.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> Say I have a data frame
>>
>> test <- data.frame(C1=c('a,b,c,d'),C2=c('g,h,f'))
>>
>> I want to replace the commas with semicolons
>>
>> sub(',',';',test$C1) -> test$C1 will only replace the first comma of a
>> string.
>>
>> How do I replace them all in one run? Thanks.
>>
>> Jun
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