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crumbly
crumbly

Reputation: 79

Removing characters from column value and adding a new letter

I have the following data frame df1. I want to remove "/" from all values in column x2 and add letter v at the end of each value in x2.

df1 
x1  x2
1   aa/bb/cc
2   ff/bb/cc
3   uu/bb/cc

Resulting df2

df2 
x1  x2
1   aabbccv
2   ffbbccv
3   uubbccv

Upvotes: 0

Views: 36

Answers (1)

talat
talat

Reputation: 70276

You can use gsub to remove the / and paste0 to add the v in each row:

df2 <- transform(df1, x2 = paste0(gsub("/", "", x2, fixed = TRUE), "v"))
df2
#  x1      x2
#1  1 aabbccv
#2  2 ffbbccv
#3  3 uubbccv

Upvotes: 2

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