[R] replacing period with a space

[Don MacQueen]

There is also the fixed argument to gsub (read the help page!)

>  gsub('.', ' ','a.b',fixed=TRUE)
[1] "a b"

-Don

At 2:34 PM -0300 10/13/09, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
>You need escape the period:
>
>gsub("\\.", " ", x$x)
>
>On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Dimitri 
>Liakhovitski <ld7631 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Dear R-ers!
>>
>>  I have x as a variable in a data frame x.
>>
>>  x<-data.frame(x=c("aa.bb","cc.dd.ee"))
>>  x$x<-as.character(x$x)
>>  x
>>
>>  I am sorry for such a simple question - but how can I replace all
>>  periods in x$x with spaces?
>>
>>  sub('.', ' ', x$x) - removes all letters to the left of each period...
>>
>>  Thanks a lot for your advice!
>>
>>  --
>>  Dimitri Liakhovitski
>>  Ninah.com
>>  Dimitri.Liakhovitski at ninah.com
>>
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>
>
>
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>Henrique Dallazuanna
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