Simple question
On Apr 19, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 20/04/11 07:19, Steven Wolf wrote:
I am trying to convert a string to a vector, and I'm stuck! Suppose you have a string of numbers (string) that you want to convert to a vector (vec). I am able to split the string turning it into a list by using strsplit, but this makes a list, which I can't seem to access the way that I'd like to (it becomes a character list of only one(?!?) element.) string<-"1,1,2,3,5,8" list<-strsplit(string,",") list # Produces this ugly output with the [[1]] crap which doesn't let me in!!!!!!! vec<-c(1,1,2,3,5,8) # All I really want in the end.
<SNIP> It sounds to me like you don't understand lists. If you are going to use R you really should understand them. They are a wonderfully useful concept and make doing many otherwise complex tasks an absolute breeze. Learn to love lists. It will be rewarding! :-)
Fortunes candidate.... :-) Cheers, Marc Schwartz