Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Y8e+nGL8g0QE6FuRYWR8A-8DA6S3YmGVxibWA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2011-01-18T16:42:20Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: dataframe: string operations on columns
In-Reply-To: <4D35B22D.9080006@wsl.ch>
> how can I perform a string operation like strsplit(x," ") ?on a column of a
> dataframe, and put the first or the second item of the split into a new
> dataframe column?
> (so that on each row it is consistent)
Have a look at str_split_fixed in the stringr package.
Hadley
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