[R] substring if a record has a "\"

Pascal Oettli kridox at ymail.com
Fri May 2 09:32:30 CEST 2014


Hello,

Something like that?

x <- c('Marius Muller -\nIT Services','Rockwood\nBrockhues','Microlog
Services\nMarcos','Firefox Services')
x <- sapply(strsplit(x, '\n'), '[', 1)
x
[1] "Marius Muller -"   "Rockwood"          "Microlog Services"
[4] "Firefox Services"

Regards,
Pascal

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Mat <matthias.weber at fnt.de> wrote:
> Hello togehter,
>
> i have a litte problem. I have a data.frame with a view entries like this
> one:
>       1
> A   Marius Muller -\nIT Services
> B   Rockwood\nBrockhues
> C   Microlog Services\nMarcos
> D   Firefox Services
>
> I now want only the first description in the column until the "\n". How can
> i do this?
>
> The solution look like this one:
>
>       1
> A   Marius Muller -
> B   Rockwood
> C   Microlog Services
> D   Firefox Services
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best regards. Mat.
>
>
>
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Pascal Oettli
Project Scientist
JAMSTEC
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