[R] String manipulation

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Megh Dal <megh700004 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear all, I have following kind of character vector:
>
> Vec <- c("344426", "dwjjsgcj", "123sgdc", "aagha123", "sdh343asgh", "123jhd51")
>
>
> Now I want to split each element of this vector according to numeric and string element. For example in the 1st element of that vector, there is no string element. Therefore I should get a vector of length 2 like c("", "344426") and so on.
>
> Can somebody point me how to achieve that in R? Is there any specific function for doing that?
>

Try this and see the gsubfn home page at http://gsubfn.googlecode.com
for more info:

library(gsubfn)
strapply(Vec, "\\d+|\\D+", c)

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