[R] Dividing one column of form xx-yy into two columns, xx and yy

[Peter Alspach]

Tena koe Mike

?strsplit

for post input separation.  AFAIK there is one cannot specify multiple
separators, but:

library(fortunes)
fortune('this is R')

HTH ....

Peter Alspach 

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> Subject: [R] Dividing one column of form xx-yy into two 
> columns, xx and yy
> 
> I have a data set where one column consists of two numerical 
> factors, separated by a "-".
> So my data looks something like this:
> 
> 43-156
> 43-43
> 1267-18
> .
> .
> .
> 
> There are additional columns consisting of single factors as 
> well, so reading the csv file (where the data is stored) with 
> the sep="-" addition won't work since the rest of the factors 
> are separated by commas.
> So first of all, is there any way to import a file which is 
> separated by ","
> OR "-"?
> 
> If this is not possible, does anyone have any ideas how I 
> could go about to separate these? I could use a text editor 
> to replace the - with , and import, but I would prefer doing 
> this inside of R so that making a script could be used in the future.
> 
> Just to clarify, I would like the above to turn out as two 
> separate columns (or vectors) where the first in this would 
> be (43,43,1267,....) and the second (156,43,18,.....) The 
> dataset is rather large, with a few hundred thousand lines, 
> so it would be preferable to keep resource intensive methods 
> to a minimum if possible.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Mike
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