HI Jim, Thank you! Works perfectly.
/Fredrik On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:00 PM, jim holtman<jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > This should do it > >> a <- c(" %L H*L L*H H%", "%L H* H%", "%L L*H %", "%L L*H %" ) >> # split the strings >> x <- strsplit(a, ' ') >> # get last two tokens >> sapply(x, function(.tokens) paste(tail(.tokens, 2), collapse=' ')) > [1] "L*H H%" "H* H%" "L*H %" "L*H %" >> >> > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Fredrik Karlsson <dargo...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Dear list, >> >> Sorry for asking this very silly question on the list, but I seem to >> have made my life complicated by going into string manipulation in >> vectors. >> What I need is to get the last part of a sting (the two last tokens, >> separated by a space), and of course, this should be done for all >> strings in a vector, creating a new vector of exual size. >> >> So, >> >> a <- c(" %L H*L L*H H%", "%L H* H%", "%L L*H %", "%L L*H %" ) >> >> should be made into a vector >> >> c(" L*H H%", "H* H%", "L*H %", "L*H %" ) >> >> I have tried strsplit, but it seems to produce a structure I cannot >> get to work in this context. Any ideas on how to solve this? >> >> Thankful for all the help I can get. >> >> /Fredrik >> >> >> -- >> "Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't >> get anything out of it." >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Cincinnati, OH > +1 513 646 9390 > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > -- "Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it." ______________________________________________ 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.