Folks,
Thanks a lot for a very speady answer. I usually read the list quite a bit
because sometimes others put questions i may be interested in. One obs. i made
was that lots of neat tricks can be made with apply, sapply and tapply. But
even if i read all the help on these functions , and they seem obvious, i
recognize that i don't understand them fully, and consequently i avoid them. Is
there any detailed doc. that explains these functions?
Monica> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:06:27 +0100> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [R] spliting strings
...> > Monica Pisica wrote:> > Hi everyone,> > > > I have a vector of strings,
each string made up by different number of words. I want to get a new vector
which has only the first word of each string in the first vector. I came up
with this:> > > > str <- c('aaa bbb', 'cc', 'd eee aa', 'mmm o n')> > str1 <-
rep(1, length(str))> > for (i in 1:length(str)) {> > str1[i] <- strsplit(str, "
")[[i]][1]> > }> > str1> > 'aaa' 'cc' 'd' 'mmm'> > > > Now, is there any way to
do this simpler?> > > > sapply(strsplit(str, " "), "[", 1)> [1] "aaa" "cc" "d"
"mmm"> > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B> c/ /'_ ---
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