Hi Petr, The data in text file and not csv format. The word "separate " which I mean in this content is like split/separate the string to each alphabet where each alphabet will be in different column.
thanks alot. regards, Hema. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Petr PIKAL <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> wrote: > Hi > > r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 07.07.2009 09:54:30: > > > Hi everyone, > > Hi want to separate the string(column1) for example > > Well, how did you get the data in R? Are they in separated columns of > data.frame? What do you mean by "separate"? > > > > > column1 column2 column3 column4 column5 column6 > > bear b e a r > > cat c a t > > tiger t i g e r > > > > I know how to do this in excel where using MID function. > > As Microsoft is more user friendly and uses translated functions in > language specific versions of Excel I do not have function MID. I suspect > it takes values from middle of string set by some identifiers. If it is > the case see > > ?substr > > However I would start with > > ?read.table > > and related read.* functions to get the data into R in appropriate shape. > > Regards > Petr > > > > Now I want to solve it using R. The list of strings is in text file. I > > looked up the help but did not find it. > > Can someone help me here? > > > > Thank you very much. > > > > Regards, > > Hema > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
