[R] gsub difficulty

[Charles Annis, P.E.]

Thanks!

Charles Annis, P.E.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Spector [mailto:spector at stat.berkeley.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:30 PM
To: Charles Annis, P.E.
Subject: Re: [R] gsub difficulty

Charles -
    Here are two ways:

> string = 'one.two.three'
> gsub('\\.',' ',string)
[1] "one two three"
> gsub('.',' ',string,fixed=TRUE)
[1] "one two three"


                                        - Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu


On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:

> Greetings R-ians:
>
> I know what doesn?t work but I don?t know why, nor how to remedy things.
>
> I have a character string containing "." which I want to replace with " "
>
> gsub(".", " ", file.label) replaces the every character with a blank.
>
> However gsub(".xls", " ", file.label) replaces ".xls" with a blank as
> expected.
>
> It appears that "." is some kind of wild-card.  How do I tell gsub that a
> period is just a period?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Charles Annis, P.E.
>
> Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
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