Thank you! ----- Original Message ---- From: "markleeds at verizon.net" <markleeds at verizon.net> To: Bill Hyman <billhyman1 at yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 3:35:54 PM Subject: RE: [R] how to separate char and num within a variable hi: you can do below but there should possibly be a better way so I'm sending offline in order to encourage better replies from the guRus. good luck. temp <- "chr1:000889594-000889638" temp2 <- strsplit(temp, ":|-") print(temp2) "chr1:000889594-000889638",
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:20 PM, 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! Bill
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