Benilton Carvalho wrote:
> help("strsplit")
> b
>
Yes, but...
The postprocessing gets a bit awkward. It might be easier to use sub()
to get rid of the first/last bit of the string i.e.
C2 <- sub("^.*:", "", Col)
C1 <- sub(":.*$", "", Col)
An orthogonal idea is
con <- textConnection("Col")
read.table(con, sep=":")
close(con)
> On Feb 2, 2008, at 12:43 PM, joseph wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I have a data frame and one of its columns is as follows:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Col
>>
>>
>> chr1:71310034
>>
>>
>>
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>> chr15:37759058
>>
>>
>> chr22:18262638
>>
>>
>> chrUn:31337214
>>
>>
>> chr10_random:4369261
>>
>>
>> chrUn:3545097
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to get rid of colon (:) and replace this column
>> with two new columns containing the terms on each side of the colon.
>> The new columns
>> should look as follows:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Col_a Col_b
>>
>>
>> chr1 71310034
>>
>>
>> chr14 23354088
>>
>>
>> chr15 37759058
>>
>>
>> chr22 18262638
>>
>>
>> chrUn 31337214
>>
>>
>> chr10_random 4369261
>>
>>
>> chrUn 3545097
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help will be much appreciated
>>
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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