Any ideas what is wrong? > strsplit("a.b", ".") # generates empty strings with split="." [[1]] [1] "" "" ""
> strsplit("a b", " ") # seems to work fine with split=" ", and other characters... [[1]] [1] "a" "b" > > R.Version() $platform [1] "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" $arch [1] "x86_64" $os [1] "linux-gnu" $system [1] "x86_64, linux-gnu" $status [1] "" $major [1] "2" $minor [1] "14.1" $year [1] "2011" $month [1] "12" $day [1] "22" $`svn rev` [1] "57956" $language [1] "R" $version.string [1] "R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)" Best regards, Ryszard Ryszard Czerminski AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP 35 Gatehouse Drive Waltham, MA 02451 USA 781-839-4304 ryszard.czermin...@astrazeneca.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice: This message is private and may ...{{dropped:11}} ______________________________________________ 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.