[R] Help with numeric and character separation

[Bert Gunter]

1. Post in **plain text** not  html, please.

2. This looks like a vector, not a data frame.

3. Use ?strsplit:

> ex <- "a.1"
> strsplit(ex,"\\.")
[[1]]
[1] "a" "1"

See ?regex  for info on regular expressions in R.
If you are confused about the data structures of input or output, time to
spend time with basic R tutorials.

-- Bert

Bert Gunter

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On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 8:47 AM Sam Charya via R-help <r-help using r-project.org>
wrote:

>  Dear All,
>
> I need help with splitting a string. My data frame is in the following
> format:
>                       V11            DD Pack0.002   FTA English News0.003
> FTA Complimentary0.004                 WB1.185               WION1.186
>    Al Jazeera0.007      Animal Planet2.368    Asianet Movies17.709
> Calcutta News0.0010    Comedy Central5.90
> I read the file from a csv and set header = False, hence the name: V1.
> The data consists of names of TV Channels and their prices. For
> example: Row 1: Name of the Channel is 'DD Pack' and the Price is
> 0.00.similarly for Row 5, the name of the Channel is 'WION' and the price
> is 1.18.
> similarly for Row 8: The name of the Channel is 'Asianet Movies' and the
> price is 17.70.
>
> My question is: How would I separate the data into 2 columns: One for the
> Channel name and one for the Price.
> For example. The Heading should be for Col1: 'Channel Name' and for Col2:
> 'Price'The data under  'Channel Name' should be 'DD Pack' and for
> 'Price' should be 0.00 and so on and so forth.
> The letters and the numeric appears together and I am not being able to
> use a separator and I am not being able to figure this out. Kindly please
> help me with this.
> Many Thanks in advance for your help. This is my first  question ever to
> the community so apologies if I have made a mistake in sending it to the
> wrong groups - kindly direct if that is the case.
> sam.
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