[R] Q. About String indexing

[Ben Day]

Hi all - this is a very basic question: how does one index substrings of a character string, for example get the 2nd through 5th characters of the string "testing", in the R language? Indexing with square brackets seems only to work for vectors, lists, etc., and although I've found plenty of functions for concatenating strings, running substitutions with regexps and the like, I seem to be at a loss when it comes to indexing or selecting substrings.

I'm sure I'm missing something very obvious here, but I ask only after having scoured the basic help manuals.

I am not so subscribed to this list, so if any replies could be sent directly to me.

Thanks very much,
-----Ben
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