[R] Replacing a period in a string

[Earl F Glynn]

What about this?

Remove the periods and change the "," to a ".":

s <- "12.084.547,17"
x <- as.numeric(gsub(',','\\.', gsub('\\.','',s)))

options(digits=10)
x

Escaping periods is not-so-obvious.

efg

Earl F Glynn
Overland Park, KS

Luis Felipe Parra wrote:
> Hello I have a sting of the form "12.084.547,17" which I would like R to
> understand as a number which has "," as the decimal separator, does anybody
> know how to do this?
>
> thank you
>
> Felipe Parra
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