[R] strsplit and forward slash '/'
Hi All, is there a way of using strsplit with a forward slash '/' as the splitting point? For data such as: 1 T/TC/C 16/33 2 T/TC/C 33/36 3 T/TC/C 16/34 4 T/TC/C 16/31 5 C/CC/C 28/29 6 T/TC/C 16/34 strsplit(my.data[1,1], /) # and any variation thereof Error in strsplit(apoe[1, 1], /) : non-character argument Any advice will be gratefully received. Best wishes, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.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.
Re: [R] strsplit and forward slash '/'
On 03/08/2011 12:37 PM, Federico Calboli wrote: Hi All, is there a way of using strsplit with a forward slash '/' as the splitting point? For data such as: 1 T/TC/C 16/33 2 T/TC/C 33/36 3 T/TC/C 16/34 4 T/TC/C 16/31 5 C/CC/C 28/29 6 T/TC/C 16/34 strsplit(my.data[1,1], /) # and any variation thereof Error in strsplit(apoe[1, 1], /) : non-character argument It looks as though your my.data[1,1] value is a factor, not a character value. strsplit(as.character(my.data[1,1]), /) would work, or you could avoid getting factors in the first place, using the stringsAsFactors argument when you create the dataframe. Duncan Murdoch Any advice will be gratefully received. Best wishes, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.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. __ 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.
Re: [R] strsplit and forward slash '/'
Hi Federico, A forward slash isn't a special character: strsplit(T/T, /) [[1]] [1] T T so there's some other problem. Are you sure that your first column contains strings and not factors? What does str(my.data) tell you? Does strsplit(as.character(my.data[1,1]), /) work? If you used read.table() to get your data in, you might want the as.is=TRUE or the stringsAsFactors=FALSE argument. Sarah On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Federico Calboli f.calb...@imperial.ac.uk wrote: Hi All, is there a way of using strsplit with a forward slash '/' as the splitting point? For data such as: 1 T/T C/C 16/33 2 T/T C/C 33/36 3 T/T C/C 16/34 4 T/T C/C 16/31 5 C/C C/C 28/29 6 T/T C/C 16/34 strsplit(my.data[1,1], /) # and any variation thereof Error in strsplit(apoe[1, 1], /) : non-character argument Any advice will be gratefully received. Best wishes, Federico -- Sarah Goslee http://www.sarahgoslee.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.
Re: [R] strsplit and forward slash '/'
On 3 Aug 2011, at 17:41, Duncan Murdoch wrote: It looks as though your my.data[1,1] value is a factor, not a character value. strsplit(as.character(my.data[1,1]), /) Thanks Duncan, this solved it. Best Federico would work, or you could avoid getting factors in the first place, using the stringsAsFactors argument when you create the dataframe. Duncan Murdoch Any advice will be gratefully received. Best wishes, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.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. -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.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.
Re: [R] strsplit and forward slash '/'
On 3 Aug 2011, at 17:46, Sarah Goslee wrote: Hi Federico, A forward slash isn't a special character: strsplit(T/T, /) [[1]] [1] T T so there's some other problem. Are you sure that your first column contains strings and not factors? What does str(my.data) tell you? Does strsplit(as.character(my.data[1,1]), /) work? yes! Thanks Federico If you used read.table() to get your data in, you might want the as.is=TRUE or the stringsAsFactors=FALSE argument. Sarah On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Federico Calboli f.calb...@imperial.ac.uk wrote: Hi All, is there a way of using strsplit with a forward slash '/' as the splitting point? For data such as: 1 T/TC/C 16/33 2 T/TC/C 33/36 3 T/TC/C 16/34 4 T/TC/C 16/31 5 C/CC/C 28/29 6 T/TC/C 16/34 strsplit(my.data[1,1], /) # and any variation thereof Error in strsplit(apoe[1, 1], /) : non-character argument Any advice will be gratefully received. Best wishes, Federico -- Sarah Goslee http://www.sarahgoslee.com -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.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.
