I have a data frame like this xx<-data.frame(cbind(Sample=c('Ctrl_6h','1+0_6h','1+200_6h','1+5k_6h','Ctrl_5K_6h','ConA_6h'), IFIT1=c(24,25,24.7,24.5,24.2,24.8)))
grep('[[:digit:]]h',xx$Sample) yy<-xx$Sample strsplit(yy,"_") I have to extract the time information separated by '_' in the sample names, i tried grep and strsplit, it looks that i am not providing some information correctly. I would appreciate if someone can point me to the correct way. Thanks Sharad -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/splitting-sample-names-tp3753712p3753712.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.