[R] remove commas in a number when reading a text file

[Joshua Wiley]

Hi Eric,

Try this:

gsub(",", "", "1,234,567", fixed = TRUE)

Cheers,

Josh

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Lee, Eric <elee at air-worldwide.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running version R x64 v2.12.2 on a 64bit windows 7 PC.  I'm trying to read a text file using read.table where the values have a format like "1,234,567".  What I want is "1234567".  Is there a quick way to strip out the commas?  I can use strsplit and paste, but the file is quite large and would take some time.  Thanks.
>
> Eric
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