Typo: > y <- as.character(x[[1]]) ## You need a character vector argument > strsplit(y,"/") ## works
-- Bert On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Bert Gunter <bgun...@gene.com> wrote: > (Re-)read ?strsplit. You do not have to tell the code how many columns ... > etc. > And the split isn't into sub columns. > > y <- as.character(x[[1]] ## You need a character vector argument > strsplit(y,"/") ## works > > -- Bert > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Sapana Lohani <lohani.sap...@ymail.com> > wrote: >> Hi, my data frame is >> >> x<-data.frame(ID=c("abc/def","abc/def/ghi","abc","mno/pqr/st/ab")) >> >> I want to split my column ID using "/" as the place to split. How can I do >> that without telling the code how many sub-columns. I could use >> nchar(gsub("[^/]","",x$ID)) to get how many "/" are in each row of the >> column, but could not use it to split ID in. >> >> Thanks >> >> [[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. >> > > > > -- > > Bert Gunter > Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics > > Internal Contact Info: > Phone: 467-7374 > Website: > http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ 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.