I've got a dataset with really long column names (e.g., CYJ.OSU.OAV.UJC.BUT.RDI). What I'd like to do is replace the fourth period with a break ("\n") so that when it plots, it will not run off the page. Here's what I've got so far:
#### create fake names function fake.names = function(x){ paste0(LETTERS[sample(1:26,3)], collapse="") } #### create the fake names fake = paste0(unlist(lapply(1:6, fake.names)), collapse=".") #### replace fourth period with \n gsub("[[:alnum:]]\\.[[:alnum:]]+\\.[[:alnum:]]+\\.[[:alnum:]]+\\.", "[[:alnum:]]\\.[[:alnum:]]+\\.[[:alnum:]]+\\.[[:alnum:]]+\n",fake) which results in something like: "TW[[:alnum:]].[[:alnum:]]+.[[:alnum:]]+.[[:alnum:]]+\nNQJ.VSI" Any ideas on how to make it replace that? [[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.