Hi,

I have a tempoary fix but I think there can be a better way (R way) to solve
this.

If you have a unix account you can do it this way.

$ vi filename

For command prompt press Esc

: s/\$//g

Otherwise you can replace $ sign with a peculiar number say '9999'

:s/\$/9999/g

This substitutes $ signs with 9999 at all places and after u load the data
you can replace 9999
with $ sign using regular expressions in R.  There is some risk and you have
to be careful to chose
the peculiar number.

I am not familiar with regular expressions in R either you or someone in the
list can help.

Regards,
Kishor

On Jan 2, 2008 7:05 PM, mrafi <confessin@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> yeah...i'd have done that but it is a 20 mb csv file...and then there are
> other columns of data also..which could be distorted  by this...
>
> r_a_mueller wrote:
> >
> > Am Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008 14:14 schrieb mrafi:
> >> hello respected ppl...
> >> am a engg. student...i was trying to use R in statistical calculations
> >> now the problem is..i imported a huge tsv file onto R...it has a column
> > csv?
> >> which gives cost...and it has "$" with each numerical value in this
> >> column...it is something like this..$.05,$.1,$.075...and so on..
> >> R is reading it as "character vector"...
> >> i tried using all the arguments but could only change it to a "factor"
> >> i want to read it as numericals...and perform further operations..
> >> i know it is a stupid problem but can any1 help me get outta this...
> >> thank you all...!!!
> > I'd like to have it simple... open your csv-file in a text editor, with
> > "find/replace" replace your "$" by ""
> >
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