Have a look at the
stringr
package

It simplifies such things...

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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski <
dimitri.liakhovitski@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am sorry, I'd like to split my column ("names") such that all the
> beginning of a string ("X..") is gone and only the rest of the text is
> left.
>
> x<-data.frame(names=c("X..aba","X..abb","X..abc","X..abd"))
> x$names<-as.character(x$names)
> (x)
> str(x)
>
> Can't figure out how to apply strsplit in this situation - without
> using a loop. I hope it's possible to do it without a loop - is it?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
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