How to delete all numbers after dot in a column in R?

Question

[Amr]

How to delete all strings after dot in a column in R?

For example If I have a column in R has Ensemble Gene Ids like:

ENSG00000223972.5

ENSG00000227232.5

ENSG00000241860.6

How to make it

ENSG00000223972

ENSG00000227232

ENSG00000241860

Thanks

Answer 1

[ATpoint]

C'mon, just google it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10617702/remove-part-of-string-after

Answer 2

[benformatics]

gsub("\\.\\d+","",c("ENSG00000223972.5","ENSG00000227232.5","ENSG00000241860.6"))

ENSG00000223972" "ENSG00000227232" "ENSG00000241860"

Answer 3

[Trivas]

Here's a tidyr way of doing it, where gene is the column name containing your Ensembl IDs: str_extract(gene, "^([^.]+)")