Try this: strDate <- c('4/17/2008 16:01', '4/18/2008 17:13') do.call(rbind, strsplit(strDate, "[[:punct:]]|\\s"))[,c(2, 1, 3:5)]
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:09 PM, FMH <kagba2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a series of data in which the first column consist of a combination of > date and time, for instance 17 April 2008 at 4.01pm, such data is recorded as: > > 4/17/2008 16:01 > > I'd like to seperate it into four different columns which consist of Day, > Month,Year and Time, respectively. > > Could someone please advice me on this mater? > > Thank you, > Fir > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O ______________________________________________ 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.