[R] Grabbing numbers inside a character string

[Simon Zehnder]

Thomas,

se ?sub and regular expression. That should make it. Further, see the package gsubfn

Best

Simon


On Aug 14, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Thomas <Thomas.Chesney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> I have a string that contains something like:
> 
> ...verified email at neu.edu<br>Cited by 99853<br></td></tr></table></div></div></div></div><div...
> 
> and I'd like to extract the number next to the text "Cited by " - so it will be whatever numbers are beside "Cited by " until a non-numeric character is reached.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a good way of doing this please?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Thomas
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