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2016 Apr 25
1
Please assist -- Unable to remove '-' character from char vector--
...explained on this site :
http://www.punctuationmatters.com/hyphen-dash-n-dash-and-m-dash/
I achieved it by executing below command after going through this page
on stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9223795/how-to-correctly-deal-with-escaped-unicode-characters-in-r-e-g-the-em-dash
splitends<-sapply(end,strsplit,"-|\u2013|,")
where '\u2013' is, i guess, the unicode for en-dash/em-dash character
in the ranges values.
I had scrapped the HTML table from this web page :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_in_Danger
and range values does have en-dash c...
2016 Apr 25
0
Please assist -- Unable to remove '-' character from char vector--
...otice that I have replaced the fancy hyphens with real hyphens
end<-c("2001-","1992-","2013-","2013-","2013-","2013-",
"1993-2007","2010-","2012-","1984-1992","1996-","2015-")
splitends<-sapply(end,strsplit,"-")
last_bit(x) return(x[length(x)])
sapply(splitends,last_bit)
Jim
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Sunny Singha
<sunnysingha.analytics at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a char vector with year values. Some cells have single year
> value '2...
2016 Apr 25
3
Please assist -- Unable to remove '-' character from char vector--
Hi,
I have a char vector with year values. Some cells have single year
value '2001-' and some have range like 1996-2007.
I need to remove hyphen character '-' from all the values within the
character vector named as 'end'. After removing the hyphen I need to
get the last
number from the cells where there are year range values i.e if the
cell has range 1996-2007, the code