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user11740857

Reputation: 480

Remove numbers from string in dataframe in R

Is there a way to remove numbers from strings in a column

ColA   ColB
A.12    dff
B.34    dfa
C.545   dfd

Expected output

ColA   ColB
A      dff
B      dfa
C      dfd

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4025

Answers (1)

Ronak Shah
Ronak Shah

Reputation: 389047

You can do this with gsub in base R :

df$ColA <- gsub('[0-9.]', '', df$ColA)
df

#  ColA ColB
#1    A  dff
#2    B  dfa
#3    C  dfd

data

df <- structure(list(ColA = c("A.12", "B.34", "C.545"), ColB = c("dff", 
"dfa", "dfd")), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -3L))

Upvotes: 6

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