[R] cutting out numbers from vectors

[Moshe Olshansky]

This is something that is easier done in C than in R (to the best of my very limited knowledge).

To do this in R you could do something like:

> x <- "082-232-232-1"
> y <-unlist(strsplit(x,""))
> i <- which(y != "0")[1]-1
> paste(y[-(1:i)],collapse="")
[1] "82-232-232-1"



--- On Fri, 1/8/08, calundergrad <haibinglin at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> From: calundergrad <haibinglin at berkeley.edu>
> Subject: [R]  cutting out numbers from vectors
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Received: Friday, 1 August, 2008, 6:40 AM
> 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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