Suppose I have the following list:

a <- strsplit(c("John;Smith", "Jane;Doe", "koda", "gunner"), ";")

I want to get to these two vectors without looping...

firstNames:    c("John", "Jane", "koda", "gunner")
lastNames:    c("Jane", "Doe", NA, NA)

Thanks

cn

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