Total newb here, but you might want to check out ?grep and ?regmatches as a start. (ways to match and then extract substrings respectively)
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Sachinthaka Abeywardana < sachin.abeyward...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Suppose I have a data frame with mixed content (name age and address). > > a<-"Name: John Smith Age: 35 Address: 32, street, sub, something" > b<-data.frame(a) > > 1. The question is I want to extract the name age and > address separately from this data frame (containing potentially more > people). > > 2. Also just incase I have to deal with it how would the syntax change if I > had "Name" as opposed to "Name:" (without the colon). > > Any thoughts are much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Sachin > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
