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. ______________________________________________ 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.