Dear R-List,
I have a dataframe with one column "name.of.report" containing character
values, e.g.
>df$name.of.report
"jeff_2001_teamx"
"teamy_jeff_2002"
"robert_2002_teamz"
"mary_2002_teamz"
"2003_mary_teamy"
...
(i.e. the bit of interest is not always at same position)
Now I want to recode the column "name.of.report" into the variables "person",
"year","team", like this
>new.df
"person" "year" "team"
jeff 2001 x
jeff 2002 y
robert 2002 z
mary 2002 z
I tried with grep()
df$person<-grep("jeff",df$name.of.report)
but of course it didn't exactly result in what I wanted to do. Could not find
any solution via RSeek. Excuse me if it is a very silly question, but can
anyone help me find a way out of this?
Thanks a lot
Alain
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