Dear Kathie,
Try also:
t(sapply(zz, function(x) as.numeric( strsplit(x, "")[[1]] )))

If you want to delete the column names, then

res <- t(sapply(zz, function(x) as.numeric( strsplit(x, "")[[1]] )))
dimnames(res) <- NULL
res

should do it.

HTH,

Jorge


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:13 PM, kathie <kathryn.lord2000@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear R users...
>
> I'd like to change this character vector, "zz",
>
> zz <- c("12","56","89")
>
> to the following numeric matrix.
>
>     [,1] [,2]
> [1,]    1    2
> [2,]    5    6
> [3,]    8    9
>
>
> Actually, "zz" vector has a long length.
>
> Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Kathryn Lord
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