Re: [R] stringr::str_split_fixed query

2015-01-15 Thread Hadley Wickham
FWIW this is fixed in the dev version of stringr which uses stringi under the hood: > stringr::str_split_fixed('ab','',2) [,1] [,2] [1,] "a" "b" > stringr::str_split_fixed('ab','',3) [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] "a" "b" "" Hadley On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:47 PM, David Barron wrote: > I'm p

Re: [R] stringr::str_split_fixed query

2015-01-15 Thread Bernhard Pröll
Dear David, str_split_fixed calls str_locate_all, which gives str_locate_all("ab", "") ## [[1]] ## start end ## [1,] 1 0 ## [2,] 2 1 ## in your example, since "" is a character of length 1. substring() is probably more intuitive to get your expected result: substring("ab", 1:2