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I would like to replace "\r\n" with "" in a character string, where "\r\n" exists only between < and >, how could I do that? Initial: characterString = "<XML><tag1 id=\"F\r\n2\"></t\r\nag1>\r\n<tag\r\n2></tag2></XML>" Result: characterString = "<XML><tag1

I really do not know ho to else title this ... I want to draw something like the attached png with R and would like to poll you on how to start ... make an empty plot first and then start positioning the characterstring by 'text' and then drawing the lines ... Joh -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: sequence.png Type: image/png Size: 7117

Dear R-Helpers, this is my first post ever to a mailing list, so please feel free to point out any missunderstandings on my side regarding the conventions of this mailing list. My problem: Assuming the following character vector is given: names <- c("filia Maria", "vidua Joh Dirck Kleve (oo 02.02.1732)", "Bernardus Engelb Franciscus Linde j.u.Doktor referendarius

Hi, I'm writing a function that needs the input names (as characterstrings) as part of the output. With deparse(substitute( ) ) that works fine, until I replace all zeros with 0.001 (log is calculated at some time): tf <- function(input) { input[input==0] <- 0.001 ; deparse(substitute(input)) } myguess <- 42 tf(myguess) # not "myguess", but &quot...

I'm able to do this as follows, but am wondering if anyone knows a simpler way which still avoids explicit loops? > (mystring <- letters[1:5]) [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" > unlist(sapply(mystring[-length(mystring)], + function(x) paste(x,mystring[(grep(x,mystring)+1):length(mystring)],sep=""))) a1 a2 a3

Hello,   I have a dataframe: dd <- data.frame(b = c("chr2", "chr1", "chr15", "chr13"),         x = c("A", "D", "A", "C"), y = c(8, 3, 9, 9),         z = c(1, 1, 1, 2))   >dd       b x y z 1  chr2 A 8 1 2  chr1 D 3 1 3 chr15 A 9 1 4 chr13 C 9 2 Now I want to sort them according column "b", but only its

Date-Time-Stamp input method to correctly interpret user-specific formats:coding is 90% there - based on exmple at http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/02/12003.html ...anyone got the last 10% please? CONTEXT: Data is received where one of the columns is a datetimestamp. At midnight, the value represented as text in this column consists of just the date part, e.g.