[R] splitstr problem

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Matthew Wiener <mcw at ln.nimh.nih.gov> writes:


> unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "\."))
> ## [1] "a" "b" "c"
<doesn't work>

> Is there some way to do what's intended?

More backslashes ("\." is the same as "."):

unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "\\."))

(and to get that in formatted docs, the source needs to say

unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "\\\\."))

which it didn't)

It's fixed in the snapshots already.

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