[R] split strings in a vector and convert it to a data.frame

[Martin Batholdy]

hi,

I have a vector full of strings like;


xy_100_ab	xy_101_ab	xy_102_ab	xy_103_ab


I want to seperate each string in three pieces and the separator should be the "_"

at the end I want a data.frame like:

column1 column2 column3
xy		100			ab
xy		101			ab
xy		102			ab
xy		103			ab


I tried strsplit but I couldn't figure out how to convert the list I get into a data.frame.

I just need a function like read.table. But it seems that read.table only can handle files, not vectors...