This might not be the most elegant way of doing it, but it should probably
work, given that data is always separated by a "_".

string.1<-strsplit(c("GenusA_SpeciesC_Tree","GenusA_SpeciesF_Tree",
"GenusB_SpeciesA_Shrub"),"_")

matrix(unlist(string.1),ncol=3,byrow=TRUE)

2010/6/1 Joël Baumann <joelbaumann@gmx.net>

> Hello!
>
> I have the following problem:
>
> I have a file in R that has in the first row three informations in one row
> that I would like to in three different rows.
>
> The first row looks like this:
>
> GenusA_SpeciesC_Tree
> GenusA_SpeciesF_Tree
> GenusB_SpeciesA_Shrub
> ...
>
> I tried with strsplit and and substring but I don't get any solution. I
> know I can do this in Excel, but in R would be much nicer!
>
> Thanks for helping me.
>
> Joël Baumann
>
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