[R] strsplit

[Uwe Ligges]

Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
> Try this:
> 
> unlist(part)[1]
> 
> or
> 
> part[[1]][1]

And in order to isnpect your objects, use

str(part)

at first which tells you about the structure of the object. Then you 
know you got a list and can look up how to extract a part of a list as 
Henrique Dallazuanna ponted out already.

Uwe Ligges


> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Nair, Murlidharan T <mnair at iusb.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I am trying split a string and use one part of it to label graphs. I am
>> using strsplit for that. While I am able to split it, how do I access the
>> separated parts.
>>> filName<-"chrI_2223"
>>> part<- strsplit(filName,"\\_")
>>  > part
>> [[1]]
>> [1] "chrI" "2223"
>>> part[1]
>> [[1]]
>> [1] "chrI" "2223"
>>
>> I looked up the help archive but did not find it. Can someone help me here?
>>
>> Cheers../Murli
>>
>>
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