Ah, I think Mark may have it. See my earlier post. Why the space? John Kane Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message----- > From: ruipbarra...@sapo.pt > Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 23:12:46 +0100 > To: marklee...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [R] Splitting a character vector. > > Oh, right! > > The close parenthesis isn't doing nothing in the result, t could be done > after but since we're to it... > > Rui Barradas > > Em 07-07-2012 23:10, Mark Leeds escreveu: >> Hi Rui: I think he's asking about your replacement with blanks. >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt >> <mailto:ruipbarra...@sapo.pt>> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Sorry, but I don't understand, you're asking about 4 single quotes, >> the double quotes in open.par are just opening and closing the >> pattern, a character string. >> >> Rui Barradas >> >> Em 07-07-2012 23:03, John Kane escreveu: >> >> Thanks Rui >> It works perfectly so far on the test and real data. >> >> The annoying thing is that I had tried , or thought I'd tried >> the open.par format and keep getting an error. >> >> It looks like I had failed to add the '''', in the term. >> What is it doing? >> >> >> >> John Kane >> Kingston ON Canada >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ruipbarra...@sapo.pt <mailto:ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> >> Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:55:41 +0100 >> To: jrkrid...@inbox.com <mailto:jrkrid...@inbox.com> >> Subject: Re: [R] Splitting a character vector. >> >> Hello, >> >> Try the following. >> >> open.par <- " \\(" # with a blank before '(' >> close.par <- "\\)" >> result <- strsplit(sub(close.par, "", dd1), open.par) >> >> >> Why the two '\\'? Because '(' is a meta-character so it must >> be escaped. >> But '\' is a meta character so it must also be escaped. >> >> Then choose the right way to separate the two, maybe >> something like >> >> ix <- rep(c(TRUE, FALSE), length(result)) >> unlist(result)[ix] >> unlist(result)[!ix] >> >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> Rui Barradas >> >> Em 07-07-2012 22:37, John Kane escreveu: >> >> I am lousy at simple regex and I have not found a >> solution to a simple >> problem. >> >> I have a vector with some character values that I want >> to split. >> Sample data >> dd1 <- c( "XXY (mat harry)","XXY (jim bob)", "CAMP >> (joe blow)", "ALP >> (max jack)") >> >> Desired result >> dd2 <- data.frame( xx = c("XXY", "XXY", "CAMP", >> "ALP"), yy = c("mat >> harry", "jim bob" , "joe blow", "max jack")) >> >> I thought I should be able to split the characters with >> strsplit but >> either I am misunderstanding the function or don't know >> how to escape a >> "(" properly in an effort to at least get "XXY" "(mat >> harry)" >> >> Any pointers would be appreciated >> Thanks >> John Kane >> Kingston ON Canada >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, >> sharks & orcas on >> your desktop! >> >> ________________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> >> mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/__listinfo/r-help >> <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/__posting-guide.html >> <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, >> reproducible code. >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & >> orcas on your desktop! >> Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/__marineaquarium >> <http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium> >> >> >> >> ________________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/__listinfo/r-help >> <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/__posting-guide.html >> <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. ____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more! ______________________________________________ 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.