Thank you both! It works now. (Need to check out the parsing .... )
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > Or a variation: > >> unlist(lapply(parse(text = Str), eval)) > [1] "aid" "assist" "assistance" "help" "aid" > [6] "assistance" "help" > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Henrique Dallazuanna<www...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Try this: >> >> Str <- c("c(\"aid\", \"assist\", \"assistance\", \"help\")", >> "c(\"aid\", \"assistance\", \"help\")") >> unlist(sapply(Str, function(x)dget(textConnection(x)), USE.NAMES = >> FALSE)) >> >> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Kelvin Lam <lamk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Dear group, >>> >>> There are postings on extracting partial string using >>> sub()/gsub()/gsubfn() >>> but I still couldn't figure this one out. Supposed I am pulling the >>> synonyms of "help" using synonyms("help") from wordnet and get the >>> followings: >>> >>> > synonyms("help") >>> [1] "c(\"aid\", \"assist\", \"assistance\", \"help\")" >>> [2] "c(\"aid\", \"assistance\", \"help\")" >>> >>> How can I get a one character string at the end that looks like this: >>> >>> [1] "aid" "assist" "assistance" "help" "aid" "assist" "help" >>> >>> Thanks for the help!!!!! >>> >>> Kelvin >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://www.nabble.com/extracting-text-from-wordnet-using-synonym%28%29-tp24988275p24988275.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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Henrique Dallazuanna >> Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil >> 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O >> >> [[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. >> >> > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/extracting-text-from-wordnet-using-synonym%28%29-tp24988275p24989814.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.