On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Martin Batholdy <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > I have a vector full of strings like; > > > xy_100_ab xy_101_ab xy_102_ab xy_103_ab > > > I want to seperate each string in three pieces and the separator should be > the "_" > > at the end I want a data.frame like: > > column1 column2 column3 > xy 100 ab > xy 101 ab > xy 102 ab > xy 103 ab > > > I tried strsplit but I couldn't figure out how to convert the list I get into > a data.frame. > > I just need a function like read.table. But it seems that read.table only can > handle files, not vectors...
Using textConnection() it can handle character vectors: > DF <- read.table(textConnection(x), sep = "_"); DF V1 V2 V3 1 xy 100 ab 2 xy 101 ab 3 xy 102 ab 4 xy 103 ab ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
