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

[arun]

Hi,
Try:
dat <- structure(list(`1` = c("Marius Muller -\nIT Services", "Rockwood\nBrockhues", 
"Microlog Services\nMarcos", "Firefox Services")), .Names = "1", class = "data.frame", row.names = c("A", 
"B", "C", "D"))

dat$`1` <- gsub("\n.*","",dat$`1`)
dat
#                  1
#A   Marius Muller -
#B          Rockwood
#C Microlog Services
#D  Firefox Services


A.K.


On Friday, May 2, 2014 3:19 AM, 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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