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data strings in R
names2<-c("Ajay","Vijay","Rajesh","Arinjay","Ram")
gsub("jay","Ohjay",names2)
names3=toupper(names2)
names3
grepl("jay",names3)
library(stringr)
names4=str_to_upper(names2)
names4
money=c("$50000","50,000",50000)
money2=gsub(",","",money)
money2
money3=gsub("\\$","",money2)
money3
money4=as.numeric(money3)
money4
names2
names3
paste(names2,names3)
#names5=as.character(names2)
substr(names2,2,5)
names2
nchar(names2)
substr(names2,nchar(names2)-2,nchar(names2))
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