Hi,
Try:
df = data.frame(currency_type = c("EURO_o_n", "EURO_o_n", "EURO_1w", "EURO_1w", "USD_o_n", "USD_o_n", "USD_1w", "USD_1w"), rates = c(0.47, 0.475, 0.461, 0.464, 1.21, 1.19, 1.41, 1.43),stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
?df$currency<-unlist(lapply(str_split(df[,1],"_"),`[`,1))
?df$tenor<-unlist(lapply(str_split(df[,1],"_"),function(x) {paste(x[-1],collapse="_")}))
?df[,c(3,4,2)]
?# currency tenor rates
#1???? EURO?? o_n 0.470
#2???? EURO?? o_n 0.475
#3???? EURO??? 1w 0.461
#4???? EURO??? 1w 0.464
#5????? USD?? o_n 1.210
#6????? USD?? o_n 1.190
#7????? USD??? 1w 1.410
#8????? USD??? 1w 1.430
A.K.
----- Original Message -----
From: Katherine Gobin <katherine_gobin at yahoo.com>
To: r-help at r-project.org
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Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:38 AM
Subject: [R] Splitting the Elements of character vector
Dear R forum
I have a data.frame
df = data.frame(currency_type = c("EURO_o_n", "EURO_o_n", "EURO_1w", "EURO_1w", "USD_o_n", "USD_o_n", "USD_1w", "USD_1w"), rates = c(0.47, 0.475, 0.461, 0.464, 1.21, 1.19, 1.41, 1.43))
? currency_type???? rates
1????? EURO_o_n?? 0.470
2????? EURO_o_n?? 0.475
3?????? EURO_1w?? 0.461
4?????? EURO_1w ? 0.464
5?????? USD_o_n ?? 1.210
6?????? USD_o_n??? 1.190
7??????? USD_1w??? 1.410
8??????? USD_1w??? 1.430
I need to split the values appearing under currency_type to obtain following data.frame in the "original order"
currency???? tenor?? rates
EURO???????? o_n???? 0.470
EURO???????? o_n???? 0.475
EURO???????? 1w ???? 0.461
EURO???????? 1w ???? 0.464
USD?????????? o_n???? 1.210
USD?????????? o_n???? 1.190
USD ? ? ? ? ? 1w ? ?? 1.410
USD ? ? ? ? ? 1w ? ? ?1.430 ??
Basically I need to split the currency name and tenors.
I tried
strsplit(df$currency_type, "_")
Error in strsplit(df$currency_type, "_") : non-character argument
Kindly guide
Katherine
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