R help - Aug 2009 - extracting text from wordnet using synonym()

Dear group,

There are postings on extracting partial string using sub()/gsub()/gsubfn()
but I still couldn't figure this one out.  Supposed I am pulling the
synonyms of "help" using synonyms("help") from wordnet and
get the
followings:
> synonyms("help")
[1] "c(\"aid\", \"assist\", \"assistance\",
\"help\")"
[2] "c(\"aid\", \"assistance\",
\"help\")"

How can I get a one character string at the end that looks like this:

[1] "aid" "assist" "assistance" "help"
"aid" "assist" "help"

Thanks for the help!!!!!

Kelvin
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Try this:

Str <- c("c(\"aid\", \"assist\",
\"assistance\", \"help\")",
         "c(\"aid\", \"assistance\",
\"help\")")
unlist(sapply(Str, function(x)dget(textConnection(x)), USE.NAMES = FALSE))

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Kelvin Lam <lamkelf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear group,
>
> There are postings on extracting partial string using sub()/gsub()/gsubfn()
> but I still couldn't figure this one out.  Supposed I am pulling the
> synonyms of "help" using synonyms("help") from wordnet
and get the
> followings:
>
> > synonyms("help")
> [1] "c(\"aid\", \"assist\",
\"assistance\", \"help\")"
> [2] "c(\"aid\", \"assistance\",
\"help\")"
>
> How can I get a one character string at the end that looks like this:
>
> [1] "aid" "assist" "assistance"
"help" "aid" "assist" "help"
>
> Thanks for the help!!!!!
>
> Kelvin
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>
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