[R] splitting a character vector

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It would be clearer to use

strsplit(xa, " ")[[1]]

the point being that you do want the result for the first element of the 
first argument, picked out by [[1]].

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, John Fox wrote:

> Dear Erin,
> 
> unlist(strsplit(xa, " ")) should give you what you want; note that you don't
> need c() to define xa in your example.
> 
> I hope this helps,
>  John 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Erin Hodgess
> > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 12:03 PM
> > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: [R] splitting a character vector
> > 
> > Dear R People:
> > 
> > Suppose I have the following;
> > 
> > xa <- c("There are 5 dogs")
> > 
> > I would like to have a new character vector such that xb[1] 
> > is There xb[2] is are xb[3] is 5 xb[4] is dogs
> > 
> > Since the original vector has length 1, substring will not work.
> > 
> > Any suggestions would be MOST welcome!
> > 
> > thanks
> > Erin Hodgess
> > Associate Professor
> > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University 
> > of Houston - Downtown
> > mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu
> > 
> > R 1.8.1 for Windows
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