Hi Johannes,
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Johannes Radinger
<johannesradin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using colsplit (package = reshape) to split all strings
> in a column according to the same patterns. Here
> an example:
>
> library(reshape2)
>
>
> df1 <- data.frame(x=c("str1_name2", "str3_name5"))
> df2 <- data.frame(df1, colsplit(df1$x, pattern = "_", names=c("str","name")))
>
> This is nearly what I want but I want to remove the words "str" and
> "name" from the values, because the columns are already named with
> that words. Is there a way to remove them using colsplit? Or any other
> simple way?
You can remove them afterwords, e.g.,
df2$str <- gsub("[^0-9]", "", df2$str)
df2$name <- gsub("[^0-9]", "", df2$name)
Best,
Ista
>
> /johannes
>
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