[R] splitting a vector of strings...

[andrew]

xs <- "this is string"
xsv <- paste(xs, 1:10)
sapply(xsv, function(x) strsplit(x, '\\sis\\s'))

This will split the vector of string "xsv" on the word 'is' that has a
space immediately before and after it.



On Oct 23, 1:34 pm, Jonathan Greenberg <greenb... at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Quick question -- if I have a vector of strings that I'd like to split
> into two new vectors based on a substring that is inside of each string,
> what is the most efficient way to do this?  The substring that I want to
> split on is multiple characters, if that matters, and it is contained in
> every element of the character vector.
>
> --j
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