[R] spliting strings ...

[Moshe Olshansky]

Hi Monica,

Try 

sapply(as.list(str),function(x) unlist(strsplit(x,"
"))[1])

--- Monica Pisica <pisicandru at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi everyone,
>  
> I have a vector of strings, each string made up by
> different number of words. I want to get a new
> vector which has only the first word of each string
> in the first vector. I came up with this:
>  
> str <- c('aaa bbb', 'cc', 'd eee aa', 'mmm o n')
> str1 <- rep(1, length(str))
> for (i in 1:length(str)) {
>      str1[i] <- strsplit(str, " ")[[i]][1]
> }
>  str1
> 'aaa'   'cc'   'd'  'mmm'
>  
> Now, is there any way to do this simpler?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Monica
>  
>
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