And one using regular expressions: x <- "2005-09-01" pattern <- '([[:digit:]]{4})-([[:digit:]]{2})-([[:digit:]]{2})' y <- sub(pattern, '\\1', x) m <- sub(pattern, '\\2', x) d <- sub(pattern, '\\3', x)
-- Jeff. On Sep 18, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Arun Kumar Saha wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a variable 'x' like that: > >> x > [1] "2005-09-01" > > Here, 2005 represents year, 09 month and 01 day. > > Now I want to create three variables naming: y, m, and d such that: > > y = 2005 > m = 09 > d = 01 > > can anyone tell me how to do that? > > Regards, > > [[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.