> how can I perform a string operation like strsplit(x," ") on a column of a > dataframe, and put the first or the second item of the split into a new > dataframe column? > (so that on each row it is consistent)
Have a look at str_split_fixed in the stringr package. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.
