Reformatting Year in strange format

[hburke012]

Is there any way for me to reformat the year values to get rid of the square brackets? So it only contains 1960 for example.

[williaml]

How is the data formatted? Would just getting the first four characters work? str_sub from stringr perhaps? https://stringr.tidyverse.org/reference/str_sub.html

[andresrcs]

You can use stringr() package, for example

library(stringr)

sample_year <- "1960 [YR1960]"

str_extract(sample_year,"^\\d{4}")
#> [1] "1960"

^{Created on 2019-12-08 by the reprex package (v0.3.0.9000)}

If you need more specific help, please provide a proper REPRoducible EXample (reprex) illustrating your issue.

[hburke012]

This worked! Thanks so much