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?strsplit should get you started On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:34 PM, kayj <kjaj...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a dataset that I would like to split based on : or – ( the data file > is tab delimited) for example: > Ny:23-45 AC > BA:88-91 DB > KJ:21-13 PA > > And I would like the data to be splitted and the final results look like > NY 23 45 AC > BA 88 91 DB > KJ 21 13 PA > > I would like to have the resulting data as a data frame so each column is a > variable. > > Thanks, > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/help-splitting-a-data-frame-tp2306832p2306832.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. > -- Stephen Sefick ____________________________________ | Auburn University | | Department of Biological Sciences | | 331 Funchess Hall | | Auburn, Alabama | | 36849 | |___________________________________| | sas0...@auburn.edu | | http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025 | |___________________________________| Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis ______________________________________________ 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.