[R] cutting out numbers from vectors

[Moshe Olshansky]

Yes, this is how it should be done!


--- On Fri, 1/8/08, Christos Hatzis <christos.hatzis at nuverabio.com> wrote:

> From: Christos Hatzis <christos.hatzis at nuverabio.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] cutting out numbers from vectors
> To: "'calundergrad'" <haibinglin at berkeley.edu>, r-help at r-project.org
> Received: Friday, 1 August, 2008, 2:11 PM
> Have a look at gsub:
> 
> > x <- "001-010-001-0"
> > gsub("^0+", "", x)
> [1] "1-010-001-0" 
> 
> -Christos
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
> calundergrad
> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:40 PM
> > To: r-help at r-project.org
> > Subject: [R] cutting out numbers from vectors
> > 
> > 
> > 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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