Yeah I finally got there thanks.

On Apr 26, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:

> Try this:
> 
> Transactions$Symbol <- gsub('[ -]*','INST',Transactions$Symbol)
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Robert Nicholson <robert.nicholson@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I have Transactions as a dataframe and Transactions$Symbol is a column in the frame
> 
> I simply want to run sub over all elements in that column where the new value replaces the old value
> 
> this doesn't seem to work
> 
> Transactions$Symbol = lapply(Transactions$Symbol, function(x) sub('[ -]*','INST',x))
> >
> > Transactions$Symbol
> NULL
> 
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