Comments on: Cleaning Data in R: csv files http://blog.earlh.com/index.php/2009/06/cleaning-data-in-r-csv-files/ Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:43:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Knecht http://blog.earlh.com/index.php/2009/06/cleaning-data-in-r-csv-files/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Mark Knecht Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:43:06 +0000 http://blog.earlh.com/?p=13#comment-2 Nice touch to use gsub to keep what you want to keep instead of trying to weed out the things you can't allow. What about header rows? The header row it isn't numerical and two header values such as DRAWDOWN ($) and DRAWDOWN(%) would both resolve to DRAWDOWN if the above worked on strings. Anyway I like the basic idea for the data portions of a csv file. Thanks! Nice touch to use gsub to keep what you want to keep instead of trying to weed out the things you can’t allow.

What about header rows? The header row it isn’t numerical and two header values such as DRAWDOWN ($) and DRAWDOWN(%) would both resolve to DRAWDOWN if the above worked on strings.

Anyway I like the basic idea for the data portions of a csv file. Thanks!

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