R help - Jul 2010 - Help with replacing a substring in a string

Dear R Users,

I am trying to replace a substring in a string with something else.

For example:
if we have "abc.degg.hijk"
I would like to replace all the "." with a SPACE to become
"abc degg hijk"

I have tried the replace.substring.wild function in the Hmisc package but get
this error:
> replace.substring.wild("abc.degg.hijk","*.*","
")
Error in replace.substring.wild("abc.degg.hijk", "*.*",
" ") :
  does not handle > 1 * in old
>
Can't really figure out from the function description or the error message
what I am doing wrong.

Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

Regards,
Tolga


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Actually, I think I got it, need to use gsub.
From: Tolga I Uzuner
Sent: 19 July 2010 12:11
To: 'r-help@r-project.org'
Subject: Help with replacing a substring in a string

Dear R Users,

I am trying to replace a substring in a string with something else.

For example:
if we have "abc.degg.hijk"
I would like to replace all the "." with a SPACE to become
"abc degg hijk"

I have tried the replace.substring.wild function in the Hmisc package but get
this error:
> replace.substring.wild("abc.degg.hijk","*.*","
")
Error in replace.substring.wild("abc.degg.hijk", "*.*",
" ") :
  does not handle > 1 * in old
>
Can't really figure out from the function description or the error message
what I am doing wrong.

Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

Regards,
Tolga


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