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Date: 2012-07-07T23:19:54Z
From: arun
Subject: Splitting a character vector.
In-Reply-To: <A649761EDD7.000006EEjrkrideau@inbox.com>
HI John,
If I understand the post, in your original data, there is a space between XXY and (.
If there was no space,
dd1? <-? c( "XXY(mat harry)","XXY(jim bob)", "CAMP(joe blow)", "ALP(max jack)")
#Rui's original code will produce
result<-strsplit(sub(close.par,"",dd1),open.par)
> result
[[1]]
[1] "XXY(mat harry"
[[2]]
[1] "XXY(jim bob"
[[3]]
[1] "CAMP(joe blow"
[[4]]
[1] "ALP(max jack"
#But, if I wanted to get the result as in the original data strsplit,
result<-strsplit(sub(close.par," ",dd1),open.par)
> result
[[1]]
[1] "XXY"??????? "mat harry "
[[2]]
[1] "XXY"????? "jim bob "
[[3]]
[1] "CAMP"????? "joe blow "
[[4]]
[1] "ALP"?????? "max jack "
A.K.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com>
To: Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt>
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2012 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Splitting a character vector.
I think I'm geting it a bit. Anyway time to shut down and have a beer.? Life will be much nice tomorrow or Monday when I get back to cleaning up the data from that spreadsheet.?
Many thanks and have a good weekend.
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
> Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 23:28:26 +0100
> To: jrkrideau at inbox.com
> Subject: Re: [R] Splitting a character vector.
>
> The space is for a different reason, strsplit doesn't put the split
> pattern in the result, so if a space is included it will be
> automatically deleted. For instance in "XXY (mat harry)" without the
> space it would become "XXY " and "mat harry)" but we want "XXY" so
> include the space in the pattern.
>
> Another example, this one artificial:
>
> "123AB456" ---> "123" and "456"
>
> strsplit("123AB456", "B") ---> "123A" and "456"
>
> So include the "A" in the pattern. It's _exactly_ the same thing.
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Em 07-07-2012 23:21, John Kane escreveu:
>> Ah, I think Mark may have it.? See my earlier post.? Why the space?
>>
>> John Kane
>> Kingston ON Canada
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
>>> Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 23:12:46 +0100
>>> To: markleeds2 at gmail.com
>>> Subject: Re: [R] Splitting a character vector.
>>>
>>> Oh, right!
>>>
>>> The close parenthesis isn't doing nothing in the result, t could be
>>> done
>>> after but since we're to it...
>>>
>>> Rui Barradas
>>>
>>> Em 07-07-2012 23:10, Mark Leeds escreveu:
>>>> Hi Rui: I think he's asking about your replacement with blanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
>>>> <mailto:ruipbarradas at sapo.pt>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? Hello,
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? Sorry, but I don't understand, you're asking about 4 single
>>>> quotes,
>>>>? ? ? the double quotes in open.par are just opening and closing the
>>>>? ? ? pattern, a character string.
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? Rui Barradas
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? Em 07-07-2012 23:03, John Kane escreveu:
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? Thanks Rui
>>>>? ? ? ? ? It works perfectly so far on the test and real data.
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? The annoying thing is that I had tried , or thought I'd tried
>>>>? ? ? ? ? the open.par format and keep getting an error.
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? It looks like I had failed to add the '''',? in the term.
>>>>? ? ? ? ? What is it doing?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? John Kane
>>>>? ? ? ? ? Kingston ON Canada
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? -----Original Message-----
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? From: ruipbarradas at sapo.pt <mailto:ruipbarradas at sapo.pt>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:55:41 +0100
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? To: jrkrideau at inbox.com <mailto:jrkrideau at inbox.com>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? Subject: Re: [R] Splitting a character vector.
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? Hello,
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? Try the following.
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? open.par <- " \\("? # with a blank before '('
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? close.par <- "\\)"
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? result <- strsplit(sub(close.par, "", dd1), open.par)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? Why the two '\\'? Because '(' is a meta-character so it
>>>> must
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? be escaped.
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? But '\' is a meta character so it must also be escaped.
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? Then choose the right way to separate the two, maybe
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? something like
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ix <- rep(c(TRUE, FALSE), length(result))
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? unlist(result)[ix]
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? unlist(result)[!ix]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? Hope this helps,
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? Rui Barradas
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? Em 07-07-2012 22:37, John Kane escreveu:
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? I am lousy at simple regex and I have not found a
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? solution to a simple
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? problem.
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? I have a vector with some character values that I
>>>> want
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? to split.
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Sample data
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? dd1? <-? c( "XXY (mat harry)","XXY (jim bob)", "CAMP
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (joe blow)", "ALP
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (max jack)")
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Desired result
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? dd2? <-? data.frame( xx = c("XXY", "XXY", "CAMP",
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "ALP"), yy = c("mat
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? harry", "jim bob" , "joe blow", "max jack"))
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? I thought I should be able to split the characters
>>>> with
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? strsplit but
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? either I am misunderstanding the function or don't
>>>> know
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? how to escape a
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "(" properly in an effort to at least get? "XXY"
>>>> "(mat
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? harry)"
>>>>
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Any pointers would be appreciated
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Thanks
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? John Kane
>>>>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Kingston ON Canada
>>>>
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