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Date: 2012-08-27T19:58:47Z
From: Bert Gunter
Subject: ?nchar ?strsplit
In-Reply-To: <1346092830.97450.YahooMailNeo@web125205.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
(Re-)read ?strsplit. You do not have to tell the code how many columns ... etc.
And the split isn't into sub columns.
y <- as.character(x[[1]] ## You need a character vector argument
strsplit(y,"/") ## works
-- Bert
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Sapana Lohani <lohani.sapana at ymail.com> wrote:
> Hi, my data frame is
>
> x<-data.frame(ID=c("abc/def","abc/def/ghi","abc","mno/pqr/st/ab"))
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> I want to split my column ID using "/" as the place to split. How can I do that without telling the code how many sub-columns. I could use nchar(gsub("[^/]","",x$ID)) to get how many "/" are in each row of the column, but could not use it to split ID in.
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> Thanks
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