similar to: removing characters from a string

I want R to stop running a script (after printing an error message) when an array subscript larger than the length of the array is used, for example x = c(1) print(x[2]) rather than printing NA, since trying to access such an element may indicate an error in my program. Is there a way to get this behavior in R? Explicit testing with the is.na() function everywhere does not seem like a good

I have some comments on the Fortran code in the fseries package in file 4A-GarchModelling.f , especially the subroutine GARCHFIT and function DSNORM. I appended the code to the end of an earlier message, but it was rejected by some rule. Let me first say that I am grateful that packages for financial econometrics exist in R. Fortran 77 had PARAMETERs, and PARAMETERs equal to 99999 and 200 should

Hi, i have a vector filled with names: [1] Alvaro Adela ... [25] Beatriz Berta ... ... [100000] ... I would like to drop last character in every name. I use the next program: for (i in 1:100000) { ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? largo <- nchar(names[i]-1) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? names[i] <- substring (names[i],1,largo] ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?} Is another and faster way of do it? Thanks,

An R script will terminate when one tries to use an undefined variable, with a message such as Error in print(x) : Object "x" not found This run-time error might occur after the script has already been running for some time. In some cases it would be nice to get such warnings before the script is run, just as a syntax error caused by a missing parenthesis is caught. Are there any

Dear R People: Here is a toy example: > x <- c("2E","5W","12H") > substr(x,2,2) [1] "E" "W" "2" > Sometimes x has 3 elements, sometimes 2. I want to extract the last element, and then extract the other 1 or 2 elements. How can I do this, please? TIA, Sincerely, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of

Hello together, i have a question for "substring". I know i can filter a number like this one: bill$No<-substring(bill$Customer,2,4) in this case i get the 2nd, 3rd and 4th number of my Customer ID. But how can i do this, if i want the 2nd, 3rd and 4th number of a column. Like this one. I have: Mercedes_02352 Audi_03555 and now i want to filter this data.frame to 235 355 can you

Based on examples in R books and the syntax of other programming languages, I expected that n <- 10 assigns the integer 10 to n, but typeof(n) is actually a double. The subscripting expression x[1] is valid, but sprintf("\n %d",1) is not, giving the error Error in sprintf("\n %d", 1) : use format %f, %e or %g for numeric objects One must use instead sprintf("\n

Hello I know that R's string functions are not as extensive as those of Unix but I need to do some text handling totally within an R environment because the target is a Windows system which will not have the corresponding shell utilities, sed, awk etc. Can anyone explain the following gsub phenomenon to me: >

[R 1.7.1 on Windows XP Pro] Since R allows missing values for character variables, why are NA's not propagated by character manipulation functions? For example: > temp <- c("a", NA) > temp [1] "a" NA > is.na(temp) [1] FALSE TRUE > paste(temp[1], temp[2]) [1] "a NA" > substr(temp, 1, 1) [1] "a" "N" >

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

I wish to obtain the right-most n characters of a character string? What is the appropriate function? --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Suppose I have a vector of strings: c("A1B2","A3C4","B5","C6A7B8") [1] "A1B2" "A3C4" "B5" "C6A7B8" where each string is a sequence of <column><value> pairs (fixed width, in this example both value and name are 1 character, in reality the column name is 6 chars and value is 2 digits). I need to

Dear R Helpers, I am still having trouble with the getOptionChain command in quantmod. I have the latest version of quantmod, etc. so I was under the impression that the problem was solved with updates to the package. If someone could let me know what I need to install in order to make this work, I would really appreciate it. My error message as session info are shown below. Thanks a bunch.

Basic question, looked through the forum and documentation but didnt see a solution. So consider O<-c(1:20) D<-c("1:","2:","3:","4:","5:","6:","7:","8:","9:","10:","11:","12:","13:","14:","15:","16:",

hello, how can I do to drop C from this character "C325" ? _____________________________________________________________________________ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

While I think total compatibility is not possible or even very important I have become aware recently of some fairly low level incompatibilities that have rather serious consequences for interchange between systems. Some of these are possibly well known, but I put them on on record here just in case. (I do not expect any action on these, of course, but people may want to note them, and correct

While I think total compatibility is not possible or even very important I have become aware recently of some fairly low level incompatibilities that have rather serious consequences for interchange between systems. Some of these are possibly well known, but I put them on on record here just in case. (I do not expect any action on these, of course, but people may want to note them, and correct

Hello R Folks... I've been looking around the 'net and I see many complex solutions in various languages to this question, but I have a pretty simple need (and I'm not much good at regex). I want to use a chemical formula as a function argument. The formula would be in "Hill order" which is to list C, then H, then all other elements in alphabetical order. My

Dear R-users, The strsplit function does not exist in S-plus and I would like to use it. How could I reproduce the function in Splus or access to its source code? Thank you in advance, Sebastien

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