[R] splitting by the last occurance of a dot

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Ashim Kapoor <ashimkapoor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R-helpers,
>
> I want to split the following vector into 2 vectors by the last occurance
> of a .
>
>> dput(rownames(sensext))
> c("pat", "cash_bank_bal", "invest_abroad", "pat.1", "cash_bank_bal.1",
> "invest_abroad.1", "pat.2", "cash_bank_bal.2", "invest_abroad.2",
> "pat.3", "cash_bank_bal.3", "invest_abroad.3", "pat.4", "cash_bank_bal.4",
> "invest_abroad.4", "Market.Capitalisation", "Market.Capitalisation.1",
> "Market.Capitalisation.2", "Market.Capitalisation.3",
> "Market.Capitalisation.4"
> )
>
> My attempt :
> I tried strsplit(rownames(sensext),"\\.") but that splits it into 3 parts
> sometimes,the logic of which I can see,since there are 2 dots sometimes.
>
> Can someone tell me how to split this ?

Assuming we want to split off the number at the end try this which
splits on those dots which are followed by a digit:

strsplit(r, "\\.(?=\\d)", perl = TRUE)


-- 
Statistics & Software Consulting
GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc.
tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP
email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com