> x <- c('dfabcxt','wwabc','abcyy','xyz')
> (y <- strsplit(x, 'abc'))
[[1]]
[1] "df" "xt"

[[2]]
[1] "ww"

[[3]]
[1] "" "yy"

[[4]]
[1] "xyz"

> sapply(y, "[", 1) # first column
[1] "df" "ww" "" "xyz"
> sapply(y, "[", 2) # second column
[1] "xt" NA "yy" NA
>


On 10/28/05, ManuelPerera-Chang@fmc-ag.com <ManuelPerera-Chang@fmc-ag.com>
wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for your post, I was aware of strsplit, but really could not find
> out how i could use it.
>
> I tried like in your example ...
>
> A<-c(1,2,3)
> B<-c("dgabcrt","fgrtabc","sabcuuu")
> C<-strsplit(B,"abc")
> > C
> [[1]]
> [1] "dg" "rt"
>
> [[2]]
> [1] "fgrt"
>
> [[3]]
> [1] "s" "uuu"
>
> Which looks promissing, but here C is a list with three elements. But how
> to create the two vectors I need from here, that is
>
> ("dg","fgrt", "s") and ("rt","","uuu")
>
> (or how to get access to the substrings "rt" or "uuu").
>
> Greetings
>
> Manuel
>
>
>
>
> jim holtman
> <jholtman@gmail.c To: "ManuelPerera-Chang@fmc-ag.com" <
> ManuelPerera-Chang@fmc-ag.com>
> om> cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] splitting a character field in R
> 28.10.2005 16:00
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > x <- 'dfabcxy'
> > strsplit(x, 'abc')
> [[1]]
> [1] "df" "xy"
>
>
> >
>
>
>
>
> On 10/28/05, ManuelPerera-Chang@fmc-ag.com <ManuelPerera-Chang@fmc-ag.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Dear R users,
>
> I have a dataframe with one character field, and I would like to
> create two
> new fields (columns) in my dataset, by spliting the existing
> character
> field into two using an existing substring.
>
> ... something that in SAS I could solve e.g. combining substr(which I
> am
> aware exist in R) and "index" for determining the position of the
> pattern
> within the string.
> e.g. if my dataframe is ...
> A B
> 1 dgabcrt
> 2 fgrtabc
> 3 sabcuuu
>
> Then by splitting by substring "abc" I would get ...
>
> A B B1 B2
> 1 dgabcrt dg rt
> 2 fgrtabc fgrt
> 3 sabcuuu s uuu
>
> Do you know how to do this basic string(dataframe) manipulation in R
>
> Saludos,
>
> Manuel
>
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>
> What the problem you are trying to solve?
>
>
>


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