substr(x,1,3) On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 21:32 -0800, Nick Matzke wrote: > Hi, > > This has got to be easy, but for some reason the simplest things can be > the hardest to find help on in R. > > How the heck do I subset a string? > > e.g., > > x = "abcdef" > > I just want the first 3 characters. > > Cheers! > Nick > > >
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