Try this:

sapply(strsplit(as.character(Elecciones$Municipios),"\\."), '[[', 1)

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Luis Felipe Parra <
felipe.parra@quantil.com.co> wrote:

> Hello, i have the following list
> strsplit(as.character(Elecciones$Municipios),"\\.")
> [[1]]
> [1] "ANTIOQUIA" "ABEJORRAL"
> [[2]]
> [1] "META"    "ACACIAS"
> [[3]]
> [1] "CASANARE" "AGUAZUL"
> [[4]]
> and I would like to make a vector of the first element of each of the list
> items, in this case ANTIOQUIA, META, CASANARE, etc . Do you know how can I
> do this?
>
> Thank you
>
> Felipe Parra
>
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