[R] How to split a character vector into 3 vectors

[Simon Pickett]

someone has probably answered this already but use
substr()
new variable<-substr(old.variable,1,1)

Simon.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kayj" <kjaja27 at yahoo.com>
To: <r-help at r-project.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:50 PM
Subject: [R] How to split a character vector into 3 vectors


>
> Hi ,
>
>
> Does any one know how to split a character vector , I have a vector X that
> looks like this and each row has 3 characters
>
>  X
> ASK
> DGH
> ASG
> AUJ
> FRT
>
> I would like to split the vector into 3 vectors that look like this
>
> X1 X2 X3
> A  S K
> D G H
> A S G
> A U J
> U R T
>
> thanks
>
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