[R] decomposing a single intact vector

Rui Barradas ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Thu Jun 28 12:58:09 CEST 2012


Hello,

Try


x <- "(O, O, O, H, L, O, O, O, O)"
strsplit(gsub("\\(|\\)|[[:blank:]]", "", x), ",")


Note that the result is a list, not a vector. You can then use `[[` or 
unlist().

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 28-06-2012 11:42, Jessy escreveu:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a vector of length 1 but within this vector there are 9 elements
>> vectorNOcorrection
> [1] "(O, O, O, H, L, O, O, O, O)"
> can someone help me with how I can have it as with 9 element  separated
> such that it will have length 9  as "O", "O"," O", "H","L", "O", "O", "O",
> "O"
>
> Kind regards,
> Jessy
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