[R] delete "-character from strings in matrix

[Adaikalavan Ramasamy]

You will need to escape special characters. Here is an example :

 my.string <- "Here is a quote \" in a string"
 my.string
  [1] "Here is a quote \" in a string"

 gsub("\"", "", my.string)
  [1] "Here is a quote  in a string"
 
See help(regexp) for more details.

Regards, Adai



On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 14:10 +0200, Werner Wernersen wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, Andy!
> 
> My problem was that I could not get rid of a double
> quote character within the 
> string. I don't know what I have done before, but now
> it works...?!?!
> Sorry for bothering you.
> 
> Best,
>    Werner
> 
> 
> Liaw, Andy wrote:
> > Please define "does not work".  Here's what I get:
> > 
> > 
> >>m <- matrix(paste(letters[1:4], "does not work."),
> 2, 2)
> >>m
> > 
> >      [,1]               [,2]              
> > [1,] "a does not work." "c does not work."
> > [2,] "b does not work." "d does not work."
> > 
> >>gsub("does not work.", "", m)
> > 
> > [1] "a " "b " "c " "d "
> > 
> >>structure(gsub("does not work.", "", m), dim=dim(m))
> > 
> >      [,1] [,2]
> > [1,] "a " "c "
> > [2,] "b " "d "
> > 
> > R-2.1.0 on WinXPPro.
> > 
> > Andy 
> > 
> > 
> >>From: Werner Wernersen
> >>
> >>Hi!
> >>
> >>I have strings where occasionally some "-chars
> occur.
> >>How can I delete these chars?
> >>
> >>I tried it with gsub but using "" as replace does
> not
> >>work.
> >>
> >>Thanks a lot for any hint!
> >>Regards,
> >>   Werner
> >>
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