R help - Feb 2012 - multiple gsub

Hi Guys,

I am relatively new to R and was wondering if I could next my gsub command
in identifying one object

I have data which looks like this:  <name>Taiwan_250km</name>
I want it to look like this:                 Taiwan_250km

So essentially I just want to gsub '<name>' and  </name>
with nothing!

So far I have got this:  PolyNam <-
unlist(strsplit(gsub("</name>","",PolyRaw[PolyLin],fixed
= TRUE)," "))

Which removes the end tag, just wondering how I can nest 2 gsubs to remove
both?!

Thanks in advance! 


                                  

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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:28 AM, TwistedSkies <david.vicary at
talbotuw.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am relatively new to R and was wondering if I could next my gsub command
> in identifying one object
>
> I have data which looks like this: ?<name>Taiwan_250km</name>
> I want it to look like this: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Taiwan_250km
>
> So essentially I just want to gsub '<name>' and
?</name> with nothing!
>
> So far I have got this: ?PolyNam <-
>
unlist(strsplit(gsub("</name>","",PolyRaw[PolyLin],fixed
= TRUE)," "))
>
> Which removes the end tag, just wondering how I can nest 2 gsubs to remove
> both?!
Just remove < followed by zero or more of anything except > followed by
>

gsub("<[^>]*>", "",
"<name>Taiwan_250km</name>")

or using the XML package:

library(XML)
xmlValue(xmlRoot(xmlTreeParse("<name>Taiwan_250km</name>",
asText = TRUE)))

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