Re: [R] regular expression help to extract specific strings from text

2010-04-01 Thread Tony B
Thank you guys, both solutions work great! Seems I have two new packages to investigate :) Regards, Tony Breyal On 31 Mar, 14:20, Tony B tony.bre...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear all, Lets say I have the following: x - c(Eve: Going to try something new today..., Adam: Hey @Eve, how are you

[R] regular expression help to extract specific strings from text

2010-03-31 Thread Tony B
Dear all, Lets say I have the following: x - c(Eve: Going to try something new today..., Adam: Hey @Eve, how are you finding R? #rstats, Eve: @Adam, It's awesome, so much better at statistics that #Excel ever was! @Cain @Able disagree though :(, Adam: @Eve I'm sure they'll sort it out

Re: [R] regular expression help to extract specific strings from text

2010-03-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
strapply in gsubfn can extract matches based on content which seems to be what you want: library(gsubfn) f - function(...) sapply(list(...), paste, collapse = , ) DF - data.frame(x, Source = strapply(x, ^(\\w+):, c, simplify = f), Mentions = strapply(x, @(\\w+), c, simplify =

Re: [R] regular expression help to extract specific strings from text

2010-03-31 Thread hadley wickham
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Tony B tony.bre...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear all, Lets say I have the following: x - c(Eve: Going to try something new today..., Adam: Hey @Eve, how are you finding R? #rstats, Eve: @Adam, It's awesome, so much better at statistics that #Excel ever was!