[R] selection of character

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

one way is the following:

x <- c("10_1", "1_1", "11_1", "2_1", "3_1", "4_1",
"5_1", "6_1", "7_1", "8_1")
#########
sapply(strsplit(x, "_"), "[", 2)


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leonardo Lami" <lami at faunalia.it>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 4:11 PM
Subject: [R] selection of character


> Hi all,
>
> I have a simple question:
> I have a character vector like this
>
> [1] "10_1" "1_1"  "11_1" "2_1"  "3_1"  "4_1"  "5_1"  "6_1"  "7_1" 
> "8_1"
> [11] "9_1"  "1_3"  "2_3"  "3_3"  "4_3"  "1_4"  "2_4"  "3_4"  "4_4" 
> "5_4"
> [21] "6_4"  "7_4"  "1_5"  "2_5"  "10_6" "11_6" "12_6" "1_6"  "2_6" 
> "3_6"
> [31] "4_6"  "5_6"  "6_6"  "7_6"  "8_6"  "9_6"  "1_7"  "1_8"  "2_8" 
> "3_8"
> [41] "10_9" "1_9"  "2_9"  "3_9"  "4_9"  "5_9"  "6_9"  "7_9"  "8_9" 
> "9_9"
> [43]  "1_10" "2_10"
>
> and I'd like to have a vector with only the value after the under 
> scor,
> like this:
>
> [1] "1" "1"  "1" "1"  "1"  "1"  "1"  "1"  "1"  "1"
> [11] "1"  "3"  "3"  "3"  "3"  "4"  "4"  "4"  "4"  "4"
> [21] "4"  "4"  "5"  "5"  "6" "6" "6" "6"  "6"  "6"
> [31] "6"  "6"  "6"  "6"  "6"  "6"  "7"  "8"  "8"  "8"
> [41] "9" "9"  "9"  "9"  "9"  "9"  "9"  "9"  "9"  "9"
> [43]  "10" "10"
>
> Is there a simple function to do this?
>
> Thank you for your help
> All the best
>
> Leonardo
>
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