[R] Help with gsub function or a similar function

[David Winsemius]

On Apr 5, 2012, at 10:38 PM, ieatnapalm wrote:

> Hey, sorry if this has been addressed before, but I'm really new to  
> R and
> having trouble with the gsub function. I need a way to make this  
> function
> exclude certain values from being substituted:
> ie my data looks something like (15:.0234,10:.0157) and I'm trying to
> replace the leading 15 with something else - but of course it  
> replaces the
> second 15 with something else too. If there's a way to exclude  
> anything with
> a leading decimal point or something like that, that would do the  
> trick.
> Thanks yall.
>

Cross-posting to SO and rhelp in quick succession is deprecated. If  
you hadn't gotten an answer on SO after a day or so, then fine, go a  
head cross-post but in point of fact you have already gotten three  
answer on SO so you are just wasting rhelp brain-bandwidth.

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David Winsemius, MD
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