similar to: regexpr mystery can not remove trailing spaces

Each of the following calls crash ("core dumps") R (R --vanilla) on various versions and OSes: regexpr("a{2-}", "") sub("a{2-}", "") gsub("a{2-}", "") EXAMPLES: > sessionInfo() R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-09-16 r52949) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit) ... > regexpr("a{2-}", "") Assertion

Each of the following calls crash ("core dumps") R (R --vanilla) on various versions and OSes: regexpr("a{2-}", "") sub("a{2-}", "") gsub("a{2-}", "") EXAMPLES: > sessionInfo() R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-09-16 r52949) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit) ... > regexpr("a{2-}", "") Assertion

I've noticed that I get a warning message every time a package masks some functions from Hmisc. The warning message says : Warning message: In identical(get(., i), get(., lib.pos)) : ignoring non-pairlist attributes This happens with eg: library(plyr) library(xtable) I think I've seen this passing by before, but I'm not sure any more. Just thought I'd mention it. Cheers Joris

Dear R Helpers, I am running R 2.6.2 on a Windows XP machine. I am trying to use regexpr to locate full stops in strings, but, without success. Here an example:- f="a,b.c at d:" #define an arbitrary test string regexpr(',',f) #find the occurrences of ',' in f - should be one at location 2 # and this is what regexpr finds #[1] 2

R-help, Sorry if this is more of a regex question than an R question. However, help would be appreciated on my use of the regexpr function. In the first example below, I ask for all characters (a-z) in 'abc123'; regexpr returns a 3-character match beginning at the first character. > regexpr("[[:alpha:]]*", "abc123") [1] 1 attr(,"match.length") [1] 3

Hi, I 'd like to match each member of a list to a target string, e.g. ------------------------------ mylist=c("MN","NY","FL") g=regexpr(mylist[1], "Those from MN:") if (g>0) { "On list" } ------------------------------ My question is: How to add an end-of-string symbol '$' to the to-match string? so that 'M' won't

Hello, I have build a syntax to find out if a given substring is included in a larger string that works like this: d1$V1[regexpr("some text = 9",d1$V2)>0] <- 9 and this works all right till "some text" contains standard ASCII set. However, it does not work when accents are included as the following: d1$V1[regexpr("some t?xt = 9",d1$V2)>0] <- 9 I have

I'm trying to use the regexpr function to locate the decimal in a character string. Regardless of the position of the decimal, the function returns 1. For example, > regexpr(".", "Female.Alabama") [1] 1 attr(,"match.length") [1] 1 In trying to figure out what was going on here, I tried the below command: > gsub(".", ",",

Hi, I'm trying to parse lines of the form: dan001.hin (0): fingerprint={256, 411, 426, 947, 973, 976} What I need is the sequence of number between {}. I'm using grep as match <- grep("{([0-9,\s]*)}",s,perl=T,value=T) where s is a character vector. But all I get is the whole string s. I tried using regexpr in an attempt to get just the sequence I wanted: match <-

Help-Rs,   I'm doing some string manipulation in a file where I converted a string date in mm/dd/yyyy format and returned the date yyyy.   I've used regexpr (hat tip to Gabor G for a very nice earlier post on this function) in steps (I've un-nested the code and provided it and an example of what I did below.  My question is: is there a more efficient way to do this.  Specifically is

Given a text like I want to be able to extract a matched regular expression from a piece of text. this apparently works, but is pretty ugly # some html test<-"</tr><tr><th>88958</th><th>Abcdsef</th><th>67.8S</th><th>68.9\nW</th><th>26m</th>" # a pattern to extract 5 digits > pattern<-"[0-9]{5}" #

Dear all-- I am still forging my first arms with R and I am fighting with regexpr() as well as portability between unix and windoz. I need to extract barcodes from filenames (which are located between a double and single underscore) as well as the directory where the filename is residing. Here is the solution I came to: aFileName <-

Hi, Here's my problem... I have a data frame with three columns containing strings. The first columns is a simple character. I want to get the index of that character in the second column and use it to extract the item from the third column. I can do this using a scalar method. But I'm not finding a vector method. An example is below. col1 col2 col3 'L'

Dear R users, I have the following two problems, related to the function sub, grep, regexpr and similia. The header of the file(s) I have to import is like this. c("y (m)", "BD (g/cm3)", "PR (Mpa)", "Ks (m/s)", "SP g./g.", "P (m3/m3)", "theta1 (g/g)", "theta2 (g/g)", "AWC (g/g)") To get rid of spaces and

Hi there, is it possible to use regular expressions in the exclude-paramter of rsync ? For example: rsync --exclude "/path/to/*/[Ff][Oo][Ll][Dd][Ee][Rr]" I've tried it, but it will take no effect. -- SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN Jens

Greetings R list, I am stuck on a simple syntax problem. I want to list all files in a directory, excluding files of a certain type. I have tried pattern matching as follows: a <- list.files(data, full.name = TRUE, pattern != ".xml") # exclude all .xml files The warning returns that my syntax is incorrect. I have read the regexpr help files and search old posts to no

Hello, I found rather surprising the behaviour of POSIXct and POSIXlt classes when combined with min and tapply. The details can be deduced from the script below: ############# Start of the script #################### before <- Sys.time() Sys.sleep( 1 ) now1 <- now2 <- Sys.time() my.times <- c( before, now1, now2 ) class( my.times ) ## [1] "POSIXct"

Hi! I want to index html files, but w/o the tags, so I was thinking either I remove them before I index it (expensive), or put up an RegExpAnalyzer. BTW, when using an analyzer, does that mean that everything which it declines (i.e. the RegExpAnalyzer doesn''t match) won''t be put into the index files (i.e. blows it up)? I came up with a simple test, which didn''t

Hi, I am relatively new to R; when creating functions, I run into problems with missing values. I would like my functions to ignore rows with missing values for arguments of my function) in the analysis (as for example is the case in STATA). Note that I don't want my function to drop rows if there are missing arguments elsewhere in a row, ie for variables that are not arguments of my

Hi, I would like to have an index for a column in a matrix encoded in a cell of the same matrix. For example: x = matrix(c(11,12,13,1, 21,22,23,3, 31,32,33,2),byrow=T,ncol=4) In this case, column 4 is the index. I then access the column specified in the index by: > for (i in 1:3) print(x[i,x[i,4]]) [1] 11 [1] 23 [1] 32 > > for (i in 1:3) {x[i,x[i,4]] <- x[i,x[i,4]] + 5} > x