[R] Splitting vector elements

[Luca Cerone]

Thanks Arun,
I agree using read.table is probably easier :)

2014-05-21 12:08 GMT+02:00 arun <smartpink111 at yahoo.com>:
>
>
> Hi Katherine,
>
> #or you can use:
> read.table(text=dat,sep="",header=FALSE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
> #   V1 V2
> #1 ABC  1
> #2 ABC  2
> #3 ABC  3
> #4 DEF 10
> #5 DEF 20
> A.K.
>
>
> On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 5:38 AM, Luca Cerone <luca.cerone at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Katherin,
> the following code does the trick:
>
> x <- strsplit(dat," ")
> df <- data.frame(p1=sapply(x, function(x) x[1]), p2 = sapply(x,
> function(x) x[2]))
>
> Hope it helps,
> Luca
>
> 2014-05-21 11:29 GMT+02:00 Katherine Gobin <katherine_gobin at yahoo.com>:
>> Dear R forum
>>
>> I have a vector as
>>
>> dat = c("ABC 1", "ABC 2", "ABC 3", "DEF 10", "DEF 20")
>>
>>> dat
>> [1] "ABC 1"  "ABC 2"  "ABC 3"  "DEF 10" "DEF 20"
>>
>> I need to split the names into two parts say
>>
>>    p1      p2
>>  ABC    1
>>  ABC    2
>>  ABC    3
>>  DEF     10
>>  DEF     20
>>
>> Kindly guide
>>
>> Katherine
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