[R] one long column of data -> three small columns

[Patrick Connolly]

On Tue, 03-Nov-2009 at 12:26PM -0800, frenchcr wrote:


|> > How do i do this?
|> > 
|> 
|> ok, so matrix(x, 3, 3) works.
|> 
|> what if i have 
|> 
|> a
|> b
|> c
|> a
|> c
|> a
|> c
|> 
|> and want
|> 
|> a b c
|> a   c
|> a   c
|> 
|> ??

Hint 1: A matrix can use characters or numerics
Hint 2: "" can be considered as a character.

HTH

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