[R] how to split a column by tab ?

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

You could try a character class instead of one character (the tab char).
There are two character classes that you can try, [:blank:] and 
[:space:], see ?regex.

strsplit(as.character(daT1), "[[:blank:]]+")

Then form the final result. I have changed rbind to cbind, it seemed 
more appropriate (?).

s <- strsplit(as.character(daT1), "[[:blank:]]+")
x <- lapply(s, function(.s) .s[!grepl("[[:alpha:]]+", .s)])
daT3 <- as.data.frame(do.call(cbind, x))
daT3


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Às 12:54 de 09/09/19, Marna Wagley escreveu:
> Hi R User,
> I was trying to split a column by tabs, I tried to split with several ways,
> but I could not split it. Is there any possibilities?
> 
> The data example and the code I used
> daT1<-c("Column number             1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8
>   9   10   10   10   10   10   10   10",
> "comes from position       1    7    2    6    3    5   15    9    4    8
> 10   11   12   13   14   16"
> )
> daT2 <- data.frame(do.call('rbind',
> strsplit(as.character(daT1),'\t',fixed=T)))
> colnames(daT2)
> daT2
> 
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