[R] Pattern matching and replacement in matrix

Ivan Calandra ivan.calandra at uni-hamburg.de
Wed May 19 13:59:43 CEST 2010


Hi,

I think you can make it work by combining gsub() and sapply() (or 
lapply()), though I don't really know how (those *apply() functions are 
still kind of a mystery for me).

Maybe someone else can help you
Ivan

Le 5/19/2010 12:35, Dani Valverde a écrit :
> Hello,
> Is there any function like gsub(), that can match and replace patterns 
> in a matrix or a data frame?
> Cheers!
>
> Dani
>

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