[R] Odp: Data manipulations with numbers which are in 'comma' format

Petr PIKAL petr.pikal at precheza.cz
Mon Sep 24 11:24:24 CEST 2007


Hi


> Hi R,
> 
> 
> 
> May be a trivial question, but struggling to find a solution...
> 
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> 
> v=data.frame(a=c("1,234","2,345","5,567"))
> 
> > v
> 
>         a
> 
> 1    1,234
> 
> 2    2,345
> 
> 3    5,567
> 
> 
> 
> I need a column 'b', which is just the addition of column 'a' with 5.
> How do I do it? And, entries in column 'a' are with commas, always.
> Also, class(v$a)=factor.

something like

> v$b <- as.numeric(gsub(",",  ".", v$a)) + 5
> v
      a      b
1 1,234  6.234
2 2,345  7.345
3 5,567 10.567

Regards

Petr

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> BR, Shubha
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