R help - May 2014 - Splitting vector elements

Dear R forum

I have a vector as 

dat = c("ABC 1", "ABC 2", "ABC 3", "DEF
10", "DEF 20")
> dat
[1] "ABC 1"  "ABC 2"  "ABC 3"  "DEF 10"
"DEF 20"

I need to split the names into two parts say

   p1      p2
 ABC    1
 ABC    2
 ABC    3
 DEF     10
 DEF     20

Kindly guide

Katherine

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Hi Katherin,
the following code does the trick:

x <- strsplit(dat," ")
df <- data.frame(p1=sapply(x, function(x) x[1]), p2 = sapply(x,
function(x) x[2]))

Hope it helps,
Luca

2014-05-21 11:29 GMT+02:00 Katherine Gobin <katherine_gobin at
yahoo.com>:
> Dear R forum
>
> I have a vector as
>
> dat = c("ABC 1", "ABC 2", "ABC 3", "DEF
10", "DEF 20")
>
>> dat
> [1] "ABC 1"  "ABC 2"  "ABC 3"  "DEF
10" "DEF 20"
>
> I need to split the names into two parts say
>
>    p1      p2
>  ABC    1
>  ABC    2
>  ABC    3
>  DEF     10
>  DEF     20
>
> Kindly guide
>
> Katherine
>
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>
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