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Erin Hodgess

2012-Aug-13 03:33 UTC

[R] named character question

Dear R People:

Here is a goofy question:

I want to extract the zip code from an address and here is my work so far:
> add1                  results.formatted_address
"200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"> add1[1][32:36]<NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
  NA   NA   NA   NA   NA> str(add1) Named chr "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"
 - attr(*, "names")= chr
"results.formatted_address">
What am I not seeing, please?

Thanks,
Erin


-- 
Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com

R. Michael Weylandt

2012-Aug-13 03:43 UTC

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It's best if you make these things available to us using dput() in the
future.

You're probably looking for the substr() function.

Since _strings_ (not characters) in R are "primitive" (Not in the
primitive/internal sense: just in the primordial sense) you can't
subset them with the brackets operators: what you're doing is
something closer to

x <- 1:5

x[30: 35]

Cheers,
Michael

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at
gmail.com> wrote:> Dear R People:
>
> Here is a goofy question:
>
> I want to extract the zip code from an address and here is my work so far:
>
>> add1
>                   results.formatted_address
> "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"
>> add1[1][32:36]
> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
>   NA   NA   NA   NA   NA
>> str(add1)
>  Named chr "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"
>  - attr(*, "names")= chr "results.formatted_address"
>>
>
> What am I not seeing, please?
>
> Thanks,
> Erin
>
>
> --
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Joshua Wiley

2012-Aug-13 03:43 UTC

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Hi Erin,

The first element of the character vector is a string.  You cannot
extract specifically characters from a string; try something like
?nchar

or perhaps better use regular expressions to extract things between
commas after two characters (or whatever logical rule accurately gets
the zip code).

Cheers,

Josh

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at gmail.com>
wrote:> Dear R People:
>
> Here is a goofy question:
>
> I want to extract the zip code from an address and here is my work so far:
>
>> add1
>                   results.formatted_address
> "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"
>> add1[1][32:36]
> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
>   NA   NA   NA   NA   NA
>> str(add1)
>  Named chr "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"
>  - attr(*, "names")= chr "results.formatted_address"
>>
>
> What am I not seeing, please?
>
> Thanks,
> Erin
>
>
> --
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.


-- 
Joshua Wiley
Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
Programmer Analyst II, Statistical Consulting Group
University of California, Los Angeles
https://joshuawiley.com/

arun

2012-Aug-13 04:00 UTC

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[R] named character question

HI,

Try this:
add11<-strsplit(add1,split=",")
?gsub("TX","",add11[[1]][3])
#[1] "? 77076"
A.K.


----- Original Message -----
From: Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at gmail.com>
To: R help <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 11:33 PM
Subject: [R]  named character question

Dear R People:

Here is a goofy question:

I want to extract the zip code from an address and here is my work so far:
> add1? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? results.formatted_address
"200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"> add1[1][32:36]<NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
? NA?  NA?  NA?  NA?  NA> str(add1)Named chr "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"
- attr(*, "names")= chr
"results.formatted_address">
What am I not seeing, please?

Thanks,
Erin


-- 
Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com

______________________________________________
R-help at r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

David Winsemius

2012-Aug-13 07:28 UTC

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On Aug 12, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote:
> Dear R People:
>
> Here is a goofy question:
>
> I want to extract the zip code from an address and here is my work  
> so far:
>
>> add1
>                  results.formatted_address
> "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"
>> add1[1][32:36]
> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
>  NA   NA   NA   NA   NA
>> str(add1)
> Named chr "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"
> - attr(*, "names")= chr "results.formatted_address"
 > ttt <- "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"

 > sub("^.+,.+,\\s[[:alpha:]]*\\s([[:digit:]]{5}).+",
"\\1", ttt)
[1] "77076"

You will need to determine if all you addresses have two commas before  
the two letter state designation. You may not need as specific a  
pattern as this. An alternate pattern.

 > sub("^.+\\s[[:alpha:]]{2}\\s([[:digit:]]{5}).+",
"\\1", ttt)
[1] "77076"

-- 

David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA

David L Carlson

2012-Aug-13 14:34 UTC

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You are treating add1 as a vector of characters. If you want the zipcode and
you know what positions it is within the string use

substr(add1[1], 32, 36)

If you don't know, you could use (but it will get any 5 digit number):

regmatches(add1, regexpr("[[:digit:]]{5}", add1))

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David L Carlson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352
> -----Original Message-----
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> project.org] On Behalf Of Erin Hodgess
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 10:34 PM
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> Subject: [R] named character question
> 
> Dear R People:
> 
> Here is a goofy question:
> 
> I want to extract the zip code from an address and here is my work so
> far:
> 
> > add1
>                   results.formatted_address
> "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"
> > add1[1][32:36]
> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
>   NA   NA   NA   NA   NA
> > str(add1)
>  Named chr "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"
>  - attr(*, "names")= chr "results.formatted_address"
> >
> 
> What am I not seeing, please?
> 
> Thanks,
> Erin
> 
> 
> --
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-
> guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

arun

2012-Aug-13 17:45 UTC

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HI,

One more method to extract the code:
add1<-"200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"
?sub(".*\\s.*\\s.*\\s.*\\s.*\\s.*\\s([[:digit:]]{5}).*","\\1",add1)
#[1] "77076"

#or,
?sub(".*\\s+([[:digit:]]{5}).*","\\1",ttt)
#[1] "77076"


A.K.





----- Original Message -----
From: Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at gmail.com>
To: R help <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 11:33 PM
Subject: [R]  named character question

Dear R People:

Here is a goofy question:

I want to extract the zip code from an address and here is my work so far:
> add1? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? results.formatted_address
"200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"> add1[1][32:36]<NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
? NA?  NA?  NA?  NA?  NA> str(add1)Named chr "200 W Rosamond St, Houston, TX 77076, USA"
- attr(*, "names")= chr
"results.formatted_address">
What am I not seeing, please?

Thanks,
Erin


-- 
Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com

______________________________________________
R-help at r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

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