[R] how to separate char and num within a variable

Wacek Kusnierczyk Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk at idi.ntnu.no
Fri Feb 6 00:38:34 CET 2009


Bill Hyman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I read in a column which looks like "chr1:000889594-000889638", and need to break them into three columns like "chr1:", "000889594" and "000889638". How shall I do in R. Thanks a lot for your suggestions!
>
>   

if strings is your vector of strings, this should do (assuming the
format is stable across all entries):

strsplit(strings, split=':|-')

vQ




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