Thank you! :)

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee@gmail.com>wrote:

> To delete everything from the beginning of the string to and including
> the hyphen, use
> sub("^.*-", "", tmp)
>
> Sarah
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Fred G <bayespokerguy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi--
> >
> > I have three columns in an input file:
> > MONTH   QUARTER  YEAR
> > 2012-07   2012-3        2012
> > 2001-07   2001-3        2001
> > 2002-01   2002-1        2002
> >
> > I want to make output like so:
> > MONTH   QUARTER  YEAR
> > 07           3                2012
> > 07           3                2001
> > 01           1                2002
> >
> > I was having some trouble getting the regular expression to work.  I
> think
> > it should be something like the following:
> > tmp <- uncurated$MONTH
> > *tmp <- gsub("[^-\\d\\d]","",tmp,perl=TRUE)*
> > *tmp[tmp=="-"] <- ""*
> > *curated$MONTH <- tmp*
> > *
> > *
> > tmp <- uncurated$QUARTER
> > *tmp <- gsub("[^-\\d]","",tmp,perl=TRUE)*
> > *tmp[tmp=="-"] <- ""*
> > *curated$QUARTER <- tmp*
> > *
> > *
> > *but it's not quite working. I want to be able to isolate any digits that
> > occur after the hyphen and to delete everything before and including the
> > hyphen. Would greatly appreciate any clarification anyone can provide.*
> >
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> > ______________
>
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> Sarah Goslee
> http://www.functionaldiversity.org
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