you can also use substring(), e.g., substring(x3, 1:nchar(x3), 1:nchar(x3))
Best, Dimitris ---- Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/(0)16/336899 Fax: +32/(0)16/337015 Web: http://med.kuleuven.be/biostat/ http://www.student.kuleuven.be/~m0390867/dimitris.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erin Hodgess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:25 AM Subject: [R] Substring and strsplit > Dear R People: > > I am trying to split a character vector into a set of individual > letters: > > Ideal: > x3 <- c("dog") > "d" "o" "g" > > I tried the following: >> strsplit(x3) > Error in strsplit(x3) : argument "split" is missing, with no default >> strsplit(x3,1) > [[1]] > [1] "dog" > > I know that this is incredibly simple, but what am I doing wrong? > > Either Windows or Linux 2.3.1 > > Thanks in advance! > > > Sincerely, > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.