R help - Sep 2008 - How do I Convert "<1" to the number 1?

Is there an elegant way in R to change a number reported as a less-than
number in text format, "<1" for example, to the numeric equivalent
1? I have
been trying to use as.numeric, but have not come up with anything clever
yet.

Tom
 
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Dear Tom,

I don't know whether it qualifies as elegant or clever, but you should
be able to use sub(), as in
> as.numeric(sub("<", "", c("1", "<
-2", "<1")))
[1]  1 -2  1

I hope this helps,
 John

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:08:21 -0700 (PDT)
 Tom La Bone <booboo at gforcecable.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there an elegant way in R to change a number reported as a
> less-than
> number in text format, "<1" for example, to the numeric
equivalent 1?
> I have
> been trying to use as.numeric, but have not come up with anything
> clever
> yet.
> 
> Tom
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