[R] UNIX-like "cut" command in R

[Christian Schulz]

> On Mon, 2 May 2011, P Ehlers wrote:
>
>> Use str_sub() in the stringr package:
>>
>> require(stringr)  # install first if necessary
>> s <- "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
>>
>> str_sub(s, c(1,12,17), c(3,15,-1))
>> #[1] "abc"        "lmno"       "qrstuvwxyz"
>
>
> Thanks.  That's very close to what I'm looking for, but it seems to 
> correspond to "cut -c", not to "cut -f".  Can it work with delimiters 
> or only with character counts?
>
> Mike
>

x <- "this is a string"
unlist(strsplit(x," "))[c(1,4)]

HTH Christian


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