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Inconsistent behavior of parse_number() with non-alphanumeric strings in R
I'm having trouble using readr::parse_number() on a character column that sometimes contains non-alphanumeric prefixes before the number. In some cases, parse_number() extracts the number correctly, ...
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Replace all non-alphanumeric with a period
I am trying to rename all of these atrocious column names in a data frame I received from a government agency.
> colnames(thedata)
[1] "Region" "Resource ...
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Removing non-alpanumeric characters from an ordered collection of objects (list) in R
I have a question about removing non-alphanumeric characters from a list in R. I have a list will all sorts of odd characters, blanks, etc. and would like to remove them. I'm generally able to remove ...
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