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----- Original Message ---- From: "markle...@verizon.net" <markle...@verizon.net> To: Bill Hyman <billhym...@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 3:35:54 PM Subject: RE: [R] how to separate char and num within a variable hi: you can do below but there should possibly be a better way so I'm sending offline in order to encourage better replies from the guRus. good luck. temp <- "chr1:000889594-000889638" temp2 <- strsplit(temp, ":|-") print(temp2) "chr1:000889594-000889638", On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Bill Hyman wrote: > Hi all, > > I read in a column which looks like "chr1:000889594-000889638", and need to > break them into three columns like "chr1:", "000889594" and "000889638". How > shall I do in R. Thanks a lot for your suggestions! > > Bill > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.