[R] ?nchar ?strsplit

[Bert Gunter]

Typo:
> y <- as.character(x[[1]]) ## You need a character vector argument
> strsplit(y,"/") ## works

-- Bert

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter at gene.com> wrote:
> (Re-)read ?strsplit. You do not have to tell the code how many columns ... etc.
> And the split isn't into sub columns.
>
> y <- as.character(x[[1]] ## You need a character vector argument
> strsplit(y,"/") ## works
>
> -- Bert
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Sapana Lohani <lohani.sapana at ymail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, my data frame is
>>
>> x<-data.frame(ID=c("abc/def","abc/def/ghi","abc","mno/pqr/st/ab"))
>>
>> I want to split my column ID using "/" as the place to split. How can I do that without telling the code how many sub-columns. I could use nchar(gsub("[^/]","",x$ID)) to get how many "/" are in each row of the column, but could not use it to split ID in.
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>> Thanks
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Bert Gunter
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