[R] separate a variable in several variables

[Gabor Grothendieck]

You can fix the space problem by using '[^[:digit:]]' instead
of '[[:alpha:]]' and '[^[:alpha:]]' instead of '[[:digit:]]'

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Peter Alspach
<PAlspach at hortresearch.co.nz> wrote:
> Tena koe
>
> Try:
>
> gsub('[[:alpha:]]', '', unlist(DATA)) and
> gsub('[[:digit:]]', '', unlist(DATA))
>
> unlist(DATA) since it looks like DATA maybe a dataframe.
>
> You are still left with the spaces, but these can be readily removed.
> Someone else may offer a better solution.
>
> HTH ...
>
> Peter Alspach
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2008 10:10 a.m.
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] separate a variable in several variables
>>
>>
>> Hello R users,
>> Imagine the data frame DATA with the variable x which is
>> composed by numeric and alpha caracters.
>>
>> > DATA
>>      x
>> 1   12F
>> 2   13 AD
>> 3   356PO
>> 4   1D
>> 5   GRT
>> 6   PO52
>> 7   LN4Z
>>
>> Is there a way to separarate x in 2 variables:
>> y: only numeric caracters
>> z: only alpha caracters
>> For exemple:
>>      x           y          z
>> 1   12F        12         F
>> 2   13 AD     13         AD
>> 3   356PO     356      PO
>> 4   1D          1         D
>> 5   GRT        0         GRT
>> 6   PO52      52      PO
>> 7   LN4Z      4         LNZ
>>
>> Kind regards
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