[R] match and substitute two variables

[arun]

Hi,
try this:
 paste(code,gsub("\\d+","",name)[match(code,gsub("\\D+","",name))],sep=" ")
#[1] "101001  Alta" "1032  Media"  "102  Bassa"   "101001  Alta" "102  Bassa"  
#[6] "1032  Media" 

A.K.



----- Original Message -----
From: irene <ireneruberto at yahoo.it>
To: r-help at r-project.org
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Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 10:32 AM
Subject: [R] match and substitute two variables

Hello, 
I have two variables (of different length and from two different data
frames):

code<- c("101001",  "1032", "102", "101001", "102", "1032");
name<- c("101001 Alta", "102 Bassa", "1032 Media");

and I would like to substitute the first variable with the  second variable
according to their shared numerical part, thus obtaining the following
result:

code.new
"101001 Alta"  "1032 Media" "102 Bassa""101001 Alta" "102 Bassa" "1032
Media"

I tried using: <- sapply(code, gsub, pattern="\\d+", replacement=name) but
the replacement cannot be of length more than one, thus my output is only
"101001 Alta" "101001 Alta"... I am not sure how to get the right answer...

Thank you!



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