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convert delimited string to vector

3 messages · Brad Christoffersen, Chuck Cleland, Henrique Dallazuanna

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Hi R Users,

Simple question:  How might I convert the text "a, b, c" (or for that matter "a
b c" with any delimiter - space, comma, etc.) into a 3-element character
vector?

[1] a b c

Thanks,
Brad
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On 3/31/2008 9:43 AM, Brad Christoffersen wrote:
unlist(strsplit("a b c", split=" "))
[1] "a" "b" "c"

unlist(strsplit("a, b, c", split=", "))
[1] "a" "b" "c"

?strsplit

  
    
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Or:

scan(textConnection("a, b, c"), what="character", sep=",")
On 31/03/2008, Brad Christoffersen <bchristo at email.arizona.edu> wrote: