[R] Re gular Expression help

[Wacek Kusnierczyk]

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Here are a few more solutions.  x is the input vector
> of character strings.
>
> The first is a slightly shorter version of one of Wacek's.
> The next three all create an anonymous grouping variable
> (using sub, substr/gsub and strapply respectively)
> whose components are "p" and "q" and then tapply
> is used to separate out the corresponding components
> of x according to the grouping:
>
> sapply(c(p = "^[^pq]*p", q = "^[^pq]*q"), grep, x = x, value = TRUE)
>
> tapply(x, sub("^[^pq]*(.).*", "\\1", x), c)
>
> tapply(x, substr(gsub("[^pq]", "", x), 1, 1), c)
>
> library(gsubfn)
> tapply(x, strapply(x, "^[^pq]*(.)", simplify = c), c)
>   

wow!  cool stuff.  if you're interested in comparing their efficiency,
source the attached script.

vQ
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