Convert character vector to numeric, ignoring irrelevant characters. — destring • vvconverter

Convert character vector to numeric, ignoring irrelevant characters.

destring(x, keep = "0-9.-")

Arguments

x: A vector to be operated on
keep: Characters to keep in, in bracket regular expression form. Typically includes 0-9 as well as the decimal separator (. in the US and , in Europe).

Value

vector of type numeric

Examples

destring("24k")
#> [1] 24
destring("5,5")
#> [1] 55