Extract
I did not look closely at the solutions that you were offered, but note that you did not specify in your post whether the numbers in your string were to be character or numeric variables after they are broken out into their own columns. I believe that they are character in the solutions, but you should check this. If you want them as numeric, e.g., for further processing, you will need to convert them. Or vice-versa. Bert
On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 9:52?AM Val <valkremk at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All, I want to extract new variables from a string and add it to the dataframe. Sample data is csv file. dat<-read.csv(text="Year, Sex,string 2002,F,15 xc Ab 2003,F,14 2004,M,18 xb 25 35 21 2005,M,13 25 2006,M,14 ac 256 AV 35 2007,F,11",header=TRUE) The string column has a maximum of five variables. Some rows have all and others may not have all the five variables. If missing then fill it with NA, Desired result is shown below, Year,Sex,string, S1, S2, S3 S4,S5 2002,F,15 xc Ab, 15,xc,Ab, NA, NA 2003,F,14, 14,NA,NA,NA,NA 2004,M,18 xb 25 35 21,18, xb, 25, 35, 21 2005,M,13 25,13, 25,NA,NA,NA 2006,M,14 ac 256 AV 35, 14, ac, 256, AV, 35 2007,F,11, 11,NA,NA,NA,NA Any help? Thank you in advance.
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