[R] How to replace all commas with semicolon in a string

Ulrik Stervbo ulrik.stervbo at gmail.com
Fri May 27 17:14:15 CEST 2016


use gsub()

On Fri, 27 May 2016 at 17:12 Jun Shen <jun.shen.ut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> Say I have a data frame
>
> test <- data.frame(C1=c('a,b,c,d'),C2=c('g,h,f'))
>
> I want to replace the commas with semicolons
>
> sub(',',';',test$C1) -> test$C1 will only replace the first comma of a
> string.
>
> How do I replace them all in one run? Thanks.
>
> Jun
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