On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Megh Dal <megh700...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Dear all, I have following kind of character vector: > > Vec <- c("344426", "dwjjsgcj", "123sgdc", "aagha123", "sdh343asgh", > "123jhd51") > > > Now I want to split each element of this vector according to numeric and > string element. For example in the 1st element of that vector, there is no > string element. Therefore I should get a vector of length 2 like c("", > "344426") and so on. > > Can somebody point me how to achieve that in R? Is there any specific > function for doing that? >
Try this and see the gsubfn home page at http://gsubfn.googlecode.com for more info: library(gsubfn) strapply(Vec, "\\d+|\\D+", c) -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.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.