unlist(strsplit(output," +"))
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Scott Chamberlain
<myrmecocys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to manipulate strings in which there are differing amounts of
> whitespace before and after each element taht I want to keep (any word,
> letter, or number). However, after strsplit and unlist, I know how to select
> specific elements with "[ ]", but I want to select instead all elements that
> are not missing. That is, do not select any elements that are simply "".
>
> output <- c("a b 8888 6")
>
> gsub(" ","",unlist(strsplit(output," ",fixed=TRUE)))
> [1] "a" "" "b" "8888" "" "" "6"
>
> Thanks! Scott Chamberlain
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