Hi, You can also try this: a <- "1,2" as.numeric(c(gsub("(.*)\\,(.*)","\\1",a), gsub("(.*)\\,(.*)","\\2",a))) #[1] 1 2
----- Original Message ----- From: BenM <bmmos...@amath.washington.edu> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:17 AM Subject: Re: [R] converting a string to an integer vector Thank you very much. That appears to be what I wanted. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/converting-a-string-to-an-integer-vector-tp4646610p4646624.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. ______________________________________________ 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.