Dear Johannes, May not be the best way, but this looks like what you described:
> x <- c("a1b1","a2b2","a1b2") > x [1] "a1b1" "a2b2" "a1b2" > substr(x, 1, 2) [1] "a1" "a2" "a1" > substr(x, 3, 4) [1] "b1" "b2" "b2" HTH, Jorge.- On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Johannes Radinger <> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a vector of strings like: > c("a1b1","a2b2","a1b2") which I want to spilt into two parts like: > c("a1","a2","a2") and c("b1","b2,"b2"). So there is > always a first part with a+number and a second part with b+number. > Unfortunately there is no separator I could use to directly split > the vectors.. Any idea how to handle such cases? > > /Johannes > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.