[R] replacing period with a space

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

You need escape the period:

gsub("\\.", " ", x$x)

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski <ld7631 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R-ers!
>
> I have x as a variable in a data frame x.
>
> x<-data.frame(x=c("aa.bb","cc.dd.ee"))
> x$x<-as.character(x$x)
> x
>
> I am sorry for such a simple question - but how can I replace all
> periods in x$x with spaces?
>
> sub('.', ' ', x$x) - removes all letters to the left of each period...
>
> Thanks a lot for your advice!
>
> --
> Dimitri Liakhovitski
> Ninah.com
> Dimitri.Liakhovitski at ninah.com
>
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