[R] how to separate char and num within a variable

[Bill Hyman]

Thank you!



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To: Bill Hyman <billhyman1 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 3:35:54 PM
Subject: RE: [R] how to separate char and num within a variable

hi: you can do below but there should possibly be a better way so I'm sending offline in
order to encourage better replies from the guRus. good luck.


temp <- "chr1:000889594-000889638"
temp2 <- strsplit(temp, ":|-")
print(temp2)





"chr1:000889594-000889638",




On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at  6:20 PM, Bill Hyman wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I read in a column which looks like "chr1:000889594-000889638", and need to break them into three columns like "chr1:", "000889594" and "000889638". How shall I do in R. Thanks a lot for your suggestions!
> 
> Bill
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