[R] split a field in dependence of the semicolon

[Bert Gunter]

See ?strsplit using the fixed =";" argument on the column containing
the character vector you wish to split.

The trickier part is that the result is a list that needs to be
manipulated -- ?do.call might be useful here, although I haven't
thought about it seriously -- to build your data frame containing
missings. There are various ways to do this, but  "An Introduction to
R" (ships with R) -- you have read it right? -- should provide the
info you need.

That should get you started. Others may provide a more complete
solution, but that's much less fun.

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
(650) 467-7374

"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
is certainly not wisdom."
Clifford Stoll




On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Matthias Weber
<Matthias.Weber at fntsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> Hello togehter,
>
> i have a little problem, maybe anyone can help me.
>
> I have a data.frame, which look like this one:
>       ID         Members
> 1     1         ; abc; def; ghi
> 2     2         ; abc;
> 3     3         ;def;
>
> How can I create another column for each value between 2 semicolons?
>
> The result look like this one:
>
>       ID         Members                Member1            Member2             Member3
> 1     1         ; abc; def; ghi         abc                     def                     ghi
> 2     2         ; abc;                     abc
> 3     3         ;def;                      def
>
> Maybe anyone can help me. Thank you.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Mat
>
>
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