If you could, please identify which responder's idea you used, as well as the "strsplit" -- related code you ended up with. That may help someone who browses the mail archives in the future.
Carl SPi wrote > I'll answer myself: > using strsplit with fixed=true took like 2minutes! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/speed-issue-gsub-on-large-data-frame-tp4679747p4679906.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.