character vectors used for names (e.g. colnames for matrices or data.frames)
are often treated by base::make.names()
or similar functions that
produce suitable names (e.g. by prepending "X" to numbers). Such names
cannot be directly converted to numeric.
extract_numbers(X)
X | character with numbers hidden inside |
---|
numeric
extract_numbers()
tries to extract numbers from X which may be
surrounded by such "protecting" characters.
#> [1] "X405" "X405.5" "X406" "X406.5" "X407" "X407.5" "X408" "X408.5" #> [9] "X409" "X409.5" "X410"extract_numbers(wl)#> [1] 405.0 405.5 406.0 406.5 407.0 407.5 408.0 408.5 409.0 409.5 410.0