[R] Help with gsub function or a similar function

[Sarah Goslee]

You don't provide a reproducible example, or even str(), but I'd guess you need to match "^15" instead of just "15".

Sarah

On Apr 5, 2012, at 10:38 PM, ieatnapalm <erawls at tulane.edu> 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.
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