[R] strsplit and forward slash '/'

[Federico Calboli]

On 3 Aug 2011, at 17:41, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> 
> It looks as though your my.data[1,1] value is a factor, not a character value.
> 
> strsplit(as.character(my.data[1,1]), "/")

Thanks Duncan, this solved it.

Best 

Federico


> 
> would work, or you could avoid getting factors in the first place, using the stringsAsFactors argument when you create the dataframe.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
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>> Federico
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