A hack would be to use gsub() to prepend e.g. XXX to the keywords that you want, perform a strsplit() to break the lines into component strings, and then substr() to extract the pieces that you want from those strings.
Cheers Andrew On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 04:08:40PM -0700, sunny wrote: > Hi. I have a character vector that looks like this: > > > temp <- c("Company name: The first company General Manager: John Doe I > > Managers: John Doe II, John Doe III","Company name: The second company > > General Manager: Jane Doe I","Company name: The third company Managers: > > Jane Doe II, Jane Doe III") > > temp > [1] "Company name: The first company General Manager: John Doe I Managers: > John Doe II, John Doe III" > [2] "Company name: The second company General Manager: Jane Doe I" > > [3] "Company name: The third company Managers: Jane Doe II, Jane Doe III" > > I know all the keywords, i.e. "Company name:", "General Manager:", > "Managers:" etc. I'm looking for a way to split this character vector into > multiple character vectors, with one column for each keyword and the > corresponding values for each, i.e. > > Company name General Manager Managers > 1 The first company John Doe I John Doe II, John > Doe III > 2 The second company Jane Doe I > 3 The third company Jane Doe II, > Jane Doe III > > I have tried a lot to find something suitable but haven't so far. Any help > will be greatly appreciated. I am running R-2.12.1 on x86_64 linux. > > Thanks. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/split-character-vector-by-multiple-keywords-simultaneously-tp3497033p3497033.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Andrew Robinson Program Manager, ACERA Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-6410 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia (prefer email) http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 http://www.acera.unimelb.edu.au/ Forest Analytics with R (Springer, 2011) http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/FAwR/ Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation using R (CRC, 2009): http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/spuRs/ ______________________________________________ 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.