how to separate char and num within a variable
Bill Hyman wrote:
Hi all, I read in a column which looks like "chr1:000889594-000889638", and need to break them into three columns like "chr1:", "000889594" and "000889638". How shall I do in R. Thanks a lot for your suggestions!
if strings is your vector of strings, this should do (assuming the format is stable across all entries): strsplit(strings, split=':|-') vQ