Try this;

gsub("\\.|[0-9]", "", pick)

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:42 PM, John Poulsen <jpoulsen@zoo.ufl.edu> wrote:

> Hello R-users,
>
> I have code that gives me the important variables from an analysis.  I need
> to input these variables into a different analysis.  To do this, I need to
> modify them slightly... 1) remove all numbers at the end of the variables,
> 2) remove all periods.
>
> I tried to do it with the awkward code below.  It works to remove all the
> numbers, but when I try to remove the period everything is lost.
>
> Does anyone have a solution?  And perhaps a more elegant way?
>
> pick=c("(Intercept)", "Clear", "factor(Hab)3", "factor(Hab)4",
> "factor(Hab)5","factor(Hab)7", "factor(Log)1", "Hunt", "Pop", "s(PrimRd).1",
> "s(PrimRd).2", "Unlog", "Xcoord", "Ycoord")
>
>  vars=as.character(as.vector(strsplit(pick,"1")))
>   vars=unique(as.character(as.vector(strsplit(vars,"2"))))
>   vars=unique(as.character(as.vector(strsplit(vars,"3"))))
>   vars=unique(as.character(as.vector(strsplit(vars,"4"))))
>   vars=unique(as.character(as.vector(strsplit(vars,"5"))))
>   vars=unique(as.character(as.vector(strsplit(vars,"7"))))
>   vars=unique(as.character(as.vector(strsplit(vars,"."))))
>
> Thanks for your help!
> John
>
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