Use gsub remove all string before first numeric character

Question

Use gsub remove all string before first white space in R

In this example, we try to remove everything before a space with sub(\".*? (.+)\", \"\\\\1\", D$name)<

Answer 1

In R 3.6 (currently the R devel version) onwards trimws has a new whitespace argument which can be used to specify what is regarded as whitespace -- in this case any non-digit character:

trimws(x, "left", "\\D")
## [1] "65lolo"    "3hihi"     "365meumeu"