How to transfer a list of space delimited character elements into a char vector?
Hi,
something like this perhaps,
create_string <- function(.s){
result <- read.table(textConnection(.s))
sapply(result, as.character)
}
(test <- create_string("ab cd ef"))
hope this helps
baptiste
On 20 Feb 2009, at 16:38, Sean Zhang wrote:
My dear R-helpers:
I am a novice in R and have the following text string manipulation
question.
Is there a function that performs the job described below?
Say,
wanted_output <- c("ab", "cd", "ef")
#the function_wanted can generate c("ab", "cd", "ef") using ab cd
ef as the
single input argument
wanted_output <- function_wanted(ab cd ef)
Motivation: I have a very long list of character elements (like, ab
cd ef gg
ww kwfl ......),
I try to avoid
typing "," between two adjacent elements,
typing " in front of the first element,
and typing " right after the last element.
when using them to generate a character vector.
Many Thanks in advance.
-Sean
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