Replacing commas and dots in R

Question

I have a whole column of numbers that include dot separators at the thousands and comma instead of dot as an dismal separator. When I try to create a numeric column out of t

Answer 1

You need to escape the "." in your regular expression, and you need to replace the commas with a "." before you can convert to numeric.

> as.numeric(gsub(",", ".", gsub("\\.", "", var1)))
[1]   50   72  960 1920   50   50  960