Thank you Jorge! thats working perfectly...
/johannes On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Jorge I Velez <jorgeivanve...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Johannes, > > May not be the best way, but this looks like what you described: > >> x <- c("a1b1","a2b2","a1b2") >> x > [1] "a1b1" "a2b2" "a1b2" >> substr(x, 1, 2) > [1] "a1" "a2" "a1" >> substr(x, 3, 4) > [1] "b1" "b2" "b2" > > HTH, > Jorge.- > > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Johannes Radinger <> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a vector of strings like: >> c("a1b1","a2b2","a1b2") which I want to spilt into two parts like: >> c("a1","a2","a2") and c("b1","b2,"b2"). So there is >> always a first part with a+number and a second part with b+number. >> Unfortunately there is no separator I could use to directly split >> the vectors.. Any idea how to handle such cases? >> >> /Johannes >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.