[R] about file name

jim holtman
2016-07-28T20:38:34Z

just strip off the first character:

> a
[1] "X35.84375_.100.71875"
> a.new <- sub("^.", '', a)
> a.new
[1] "35.84375_.100.71875"
>


Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 3:51 PM, lily li <chocold12 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi R users,
>
> I have a string for example 'X35.84375_.100.71875', and I have
another
> dataframe df that I want to export with the transformed string name
> '35.84375_-100.71875' with no extension. How to do this in R?
Thanks for
> your help.
>
> a = 'X35.84375_.100.71875'
> write.table(df, file='', row.names=F, col.names=F)
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