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Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to find the index of the second occurrence of "/" in a string (which happens to represent a date) within a data frame column. I've used the following code successfully to find the first instance of "/". dframe <- data.frame(date=c("5/14/2011", "4/7/2011")) dframe$x1 <- regexpr("/", dframe[, 1])

Hi, Does anyone know if the alternatives in the 'switch' function can be specified as strings containing spaces?  Neither of the two approaches below works. switch(expr, "Choice 1"="My first choice", "Choice 2"="My 2nd choice", "Choice 3"="My 3rd choice") x <- c("Choice 1", "Choice 2", "Choice

Hello, After reading help file, various threads on this board, and other online tutorials, I've attempted to use gsub (using Perl-like syntax) to change a currency string into something that can be converted to numeric type using only one regular expression.  Can anybody point out my error?  Note that >  x <- "\"$ 1,200,300,400.50\"" Tried the following in an

Hello, I'm wondering if the 'mosaic' plot of the vcd package (or any other function for that matter) can be used with a continuous variable that should be represented via various categorical variables.  All the documentation I've read lead me to believe that it only works with counts of categories. Alternatively, I've thought of first creating a contingency table where the

Can anyone explain (perhaps with an example) why the R Language Definitions (Version 2.15.2, 2012-10-26, DRAFT) says the following in section 3.2.6? "To choose from a list of alternatives that already exists switch() may not be the best way to select one for evaluation. It is often better to use eval() and the subset operator, [[, directly via eval(x[[condition]])." I can't quite

Hello, Is there a way to set the maximum width of character columns when printing a data frame? I've looked into print(), format(), and options() and have been unsuccessful. For example, I'd like to achieve the results below without having to modify the data itself. > x <- data.frame(c1=rnorm(5), c2="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ") > x c1 c2 1

Hi, I have a data frame with column names "1", "2", "3", ... and I'd like to extract a subset based on the values in the first column. None of the methods I tried worked (below). x <- subset(dframe, 1 = = "My Text") x <- subset(dframe, "1" = = "My Text") x <- subset(dframe, names(dframe)[1] = = "My Text") Q

Hi, Would anyone have any idea as to why I would obtain completely different results when subsetting using the subset function vs bracket notation? I have a data frame with 65 variables and 4382 rows. When I use execute the following subset command I get the correct results (125 rows) > subset(df, Renewal==TRUE, 1:2)   However, I tried to obtain the same results with bracket notation as