[R] substring if a record has a \

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?

Re: [R] substring if a record has a \

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

Re: [R] substring if a record has a \

works perfect, thank you :-) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/substring-if-a-record-has-a-n-tp4689857p4689860.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [R] substring if a record has a \

Hi, Try: dat - structure(list(`1` = c(Marius Muller -\nIT Services, Rockwood\nBrockhues, Microlog Services\nMarcos, Firefox Services)), .Names = 1, class = data.frame, row.names = c(A, B, C, D)) dat$`1` - gsub(\n.*,,dat$`1`) dat #  1 #A   Marius Muller - #B  Rockwood