[R] Re move all punctuations except commas

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try something along these lines:

gsub("[^[:alnum:][:space:],]", "", string)


On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Rnewbie<xuancj at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Dear all,
>
> I wanted to remove all punctuations except commas from a string.
>
> I used:
>
> gsub("[[:punct:]]", "", string)
>
> but I don't know how to exclude the commas ",". Anyone would kindly answer
> my basic question?
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