Thanks Arun, I agree using read.table is probably easier :) 2014-05-21 12:08 GMT+02:00 arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com>: > > > Hi Katherine, > > #or you can use: > read.table(text=dat,sep="",header=FALSE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) > # V1 V2 > #1 ABC 1 > #2 ABC 2 > #3 ABC 3 > #4 DEF 10 > #5 DEF 20 > A.K. > > > On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 5:38 AM, Luca Cerone <luca.cer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Katherin, > the following code does the trick: > > x <- strsplit(dat," ") > df <- data.frame(p1=sapply(x, function(x) x[1]), p2 = sapply(x, > function(x) x[2])) > > Hope it helps, > Luca > > 2014-05-21 11:29 GMT+02:00 Katherine Gobin <katherine_go...@yahoo.com>: >> Dear R forum >> >> I have a vector as >> >> dat = c("ABC 1", "ABC 2", "ABC 3", "DEF 10", "DEF 20") >> >>> dat >> [1] "ABC 1" "ABC 2" "ABC 3" "DEF 10" "DEF 20" >> >> I need to split the names into two parts say >> >> p1 p2 >> ABC 1 >> ABC 2 >> ABC 3 >> DEF 10 >> DEF 20 >> >> Kindly guide >> >> Katherine >> >> [[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. >> > > > > -- > Luca Cerone > > Tel: +34 692 06 71 28 > Skype: luca.cerone > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
-- Luca Cerone Tel: +34 692 06 71 28 Skype: luca.cerone ______________________________________________ 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.