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[james.holtman@convergys.com]

use 'gsub'

> x <- c('1,200.44', '23,345.66')
> gsub(',','',x)
[1] "1200.44"  "23345.66"
> as.numeric(gsub(',','',x))
[1]  1200.44 23345.66
>
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R-people

I wonder if one could change a list of table with number of the form
1,200.44 , to 1200.44

Regards
JG


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