[R] [FORGED] substr gives empty output

[Rolf Turner]

On 21/01/18 21:59, Luigi Marongiu wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have a string, let's say "testing", and I would like to extract in
> sequence each letter (character) from it. But when I use substr() I only
> properly get the first character, the rest is empty (""). What am I getting
> wrong?

What you're getting wrong is failing the read the help for substr(). 
The third argument is "stop", not the length of the substring.

> For example, I have this code:
> 
>>>>
> x <- "testing"
> k <- nchar(x)
> for (i in 1:k) {
>    y <- substr(x, i, 1)
>    print(y)
> }

You want y <- substr(x,i,i).

cheers,

Rolf Turner

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