[R] cutting out numbers from vectors

Christos Hatzis christos.hatzis at nuverabio.com
Fri Aug 1 06:11:54 CEST 2008


Have a look at gsub:

> x <- "001-010-001-0"
> gsub("^0+", "", x)
[1] "1-010-001-0" 

-Christos

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> i have a vector with values similar to the below text [1] 
> 001-010-001-0
> 
> I want to get rid of all leading zeroes.  for example i want 
> to change the values of the vector so that [1] 001-010-001-0 
> becomes [1] 1-010-001-0.  
> 
> Another example
> [1]082-232-232-1 becomes [1] 82-232-232-1
> 
> how do i do this?
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