Hello, Something like that?
x <- c('Marius Muller -\nIT Services','Rockwood\nBrockhues','Microlog Services\nMarcos','Firefox Services') x <- sapply(strsplit(x, '\n'), '[', 1) x [1] "Marius Muller -" "Rockwood" "Microlog Services" [4] "Firefox Services" Regards, Pascal On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Mat <matthias.we...@fnt.de> wrote: > Hello togehter, > > i have a litte problem. I have a data.frame with a view entries like this > one: > 1 > A Marius Muller -\nIT Services > B Rockwood\nBrockhues > C Microlog Services\nMarcos > D Firefox Services > > I now want only the first description in the column until the "\n". How can > i do this? > > The solution look like this one: > > 1 > A Marius Muller - > B Rockwood > C Microlog Services > D Firefox Services > > Thank you. > > Best regards. Mat. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/substring-if-a-record-has-a-tp4689857.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Pascal Oettli Project Scientist JAMSTEC Yokohama, Japan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.