[R] splitting a character vector

[John Fox]

Dear Erin,

unlist(strsplit(xa, " ")) should give you what you want; note that you don't
need c() to define xa in your example.

I hope this helps,
 John 

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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Erin Hodgess
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 12:03 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] splitting a character vector
> 
> Dear R People:
> 
> Suppose I have the following;
> 
> xa <- c("There are 5 dogs")
> 
> I would like to have a new character vector such that xb[1] 
> is There xb[2] is are xb[3] is 5 xb[4] is dogs
> 
> Since the original vector has length 1, substring will not work.
> 
> Any suggestions would be MOST welcome!
> 
> thanks
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University 
> of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu
> 
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