[R] splitstr problem solved

[Matthew Wiener]

Hi.  Robert Gentleman's solution works.  Thanks.

This seems to be a documentation bug; I will submit a separate report to
the bug list for completeness.

Matt


On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Robert Gentleman wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 02:32:54PM -0500, Matthew Wiener wrote:
> > Hi, all.
> > 
> > Using the patched version of R-0.99.0, I cannot reproduce the following
> > example from the strsplit  documentation:
> > 
> > (Example)
> > unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "."))  
> > ## [1] "" "" "" "" "" 
> > ## Note that `split' is a regexp!  
> > ## If you really want to split on `.', use
> > unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "\."))
> > ## [1] "a" "b" "c"
> 
>   I don't have a copy of 0.99 but I think you want
>     unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "\\."))
>                               ^^
> > 
> > 
> > The first one gets the stated result, but the second gets me the same
> > result as the first.
> > 
> > Is there some way to do what's intended?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 		Matt
> > 
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