Dear All, I have been trying to scan data from pdf files and use R to seperate them. The following will make it clear I have a line that reads "Intrepid (D) 15,977 11,956 45,143 39,014" where what is in the parenthesis is either a "D" for domestic or "I" for import. I want to try to strsplit the line according to the full character "(D)" or "(I)" but unfortunately R recognizes this as "D", or "I" in the strsplit command. my question is is there any way that I can tell R that this "(" is a character. P.S. even grep() does have the same problem. I know this is not a problem since "(", ")", "[", etc.. are predefined in R but why is the quotation marks for strings not doing its job here?
Thanks, Jean Eid
These functions do use regular expression. Try e.g.:
strsplit("Intrepid (D) 15,977 11,956 45,143 39,014", "\\(D\\)")
Uwe Ligges
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