On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:30 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). >
Try this: > library(gsubfn) > > a <- "Name: John Smith Age: 35 Address: 32, street, sub, something" > b <- data.frame(a) > strapplyc(as.character(b$a), "Name: (.*) Age: (.*) Address: (.*)") [[1]] [1] "John Smith" "35" [3] "32, street, sub, something" > > > a. <- "Name John Smith Age 35 Address 32, street, sub, something" > b. <- data.frame(a.) > strapplyc(as.character(b.$a.), "Name (.*) Age (.*) Address (.*)") [[1]] [1] "John Smith" "35" [3] "32, street, sub, something" -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
