[R] string manip

[Emmanuel Paradis]

At 16:18 06/09/02 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I need to split a string in elements but I cannot find how to.
>
>I have a string:     s<-"Block Column ID"      for example
>I would like to obtain a vector with 3 elements
>
>Is there a function to do this?

Yes, the function strsplit returns a list, so in your example:

> s <- "Block Column ID"
> unlist(strsplit(s, " "))
[1] "Block"  "Column" "ID"


EP

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