Extracting unique numbers from string in R
For the second answer, you can use gsub
to remove everything from the string that's not a number, then split the string as follows:
unique(as.numeric(unlist(strsplit(gsub("[^0-9]", "", unlist(ll)), ""))))
# [1] 7 6 1 5 2
For the first answer, similarly using strsplit
,
unique(na.omit(as.numeric(unlist(strsplit(unlist(ll), "[^0-9]+")))))
# [1] 7 667 11 5 2
PS: don't name your variable list
(as there's an inbuilt function list
). I've named your data as ll
.
Here is yet another answer, this one using gregexpr
to find the numbers, and regmatches
to extract them:
l <- c("djud7+dg[a]hs667", "7fd*hac11(5)", "2tu,g7gka5")
temp1 <- gregexpr("[0-9]", l) # Individual digits
temp2 <- gregexpr("[0-9]+", l) # Numbers with any number of digits
as.numeric(unique(unlist(regmatches(l, temp1))))
# [1] 7 6 1 5 2
as.numeric(unique(unlist(regmatches(l, temp2))))
# [1] 7 667 11 5 2