[R] GSUB and Data.frame format lost

[Ivan Calandra]

Hi,

If I understand you well, the problem is that DataGoogle2 is a 1-column 
data.frame and this is expected based on your code!

I think you want something like this to change the 1st column of the 
data.frame:
DataGoogle2 <- DataGoogle1
DataGoogle2$Campaña <- gsub("facebook-Ads1", "FBAds", DataGoogle2$Campaña)

HTH,
Ivan

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Le 19/08/14 11:21, Omar André Gonzáles Díaz a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> please, i'm trying to understand how using "Gsub" for some search and
> replace of text, makes my data frame lost it's format.
>
> This is my code:
>
> <code>
>
> DataGoogle1 <- read.csv(file = "DataGoogle2.csv", header = T,
> stringsAsFactors = F)
> head(DataGoogle1)
>
> </code>
>
> Result 1:
>
> Campaña                    Visitas     Compras
> 1 facebook-Ads1         524         2
> 2 faceBOOK-Ads1       487         24
> 3 fcebook-ads12          258         4
> 4        Email1                8             7
> 5         mail1                 224         2
> 6     referral1                147         7
>
>
> Then i apply the GSUB function like this:
>
> <code> DataGoogle2 <- as.data.frame(gsub("facebook-Ads1", "FBAds",
> DataGoogle1$Campaña)) </code>
>
> And the result is:
>
> DataGoogle2
>     gsub..facebook.Ads1....FBAds...DataGoogle1.Campaña.
> 1                                                FBAds
> 2                                        faceBOOK-Ads1
> 3                                        fcebook-ads12
> 4                                               Email1
> 5                                                mail1
> 6                                            referral1
>
> ...
>
> The Search and Replace works, but my data.frame does not. Even if i use:
> "as.data.frame" before of the "gsub" function. Please, tell me what can i
> do... Cheers!
>
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