Replace. in R

Question

How can I replace .. using.

I tried something like:

names(dataset) <- gsub("[/./.]",".",names(dataset)) 

But this does not work, as I had hoped.

Answer 1

Try adding fixed = T

 R> c <- "v.." [1] "v.." R> gsub("..", '.', c, fixed = T) [1] "v." 

Answer 2

I think you have slashes in the wrong direction, and you need to double them:

 gsub("\\.\\.",".",names(dataset)) 

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