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I would try
sapply(strsplit(loaded.topics$doc.id, "_"), function(xx) xx[1])
to get the MD part.
Kasper
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:19 PM, bryan rasmussen
wrote:
> I have a table with a structure like the following:
>
> lang |
I have a table with a structure like the following:
lang | basic id | doc id | topics|
se | 447157 | MD_2002_0014 |12 |
loaded topics <- read.table("path to file",header=TRUE, sep="|",
fileEncoding="utf-8")
In that table the actual meaningful data (in this context) is the text
before the first