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2 messages · stella, Sarah Goslee
You can use gsub() to delete all the characters after the first semicolon by replacing them with "". If you provide the requested reproducible example, I imagine someone will provide you with working code, if reading the help for gsub() isn't enough to get you going. Sarah
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:27 PM, stella <dorotheabusse at yahoo.de> wrote:
Hi,
I have a list of names (alphanumeric characters) and each row by itself
contains a different number of names seperated by a semicolon (";"). There
are also rows with no entry. I would like to have the name before the first
semicolon in each row, if there is any entry. Does anyone have an idea how
to solve this in R?
Thank you!
?Stella
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