[R] need help with excel data

Sean Porter
Thu, 22 Jan 2015 06:00:04 -0000

Hi Dr Polanski,

I would recommend you do this in excel seeing as you know how to work with
excel. You can use excel to put different parts of a cell into another cell.

For example if cell A1 is 12*23 34*45

And you want "12" in a separate cell  (say cell A2) go to cell A2 and
type: =LEFT(A1,2)

This will extract the first 2 characters from the left.

To extract "45" you would type: =Right(A1,2)

To get 2 characters starting at position 4 you would type: =MID(A1, 4,2)

Which will give you 23.


Hope this helps.

Regards,

DR. SEAN PORTER
Scientist

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-----Original Message-----
From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dr Polanski
Sent: 21 January 2015 10:32 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] need help with excel data

Hi all!

Sorry to bother you, I am trying to learn some R via coursera courses and other
internet sources yet haven?t managed to go far

And now I need to do some, I hope, not too difficult things, which I think R can
do, yet have no idea how to make it do so

I have a big set of data (empirical) which was obtained by my colleagues and
store at not convenient  way - all of the data in two cells of an excel table an
example of the data is in the attached file (the link)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B64YMbf_hh5BS2tzVE9WVmV3bFU/view?usp=sharing

so the first column has a number and the second has a whole vector (I guess it
is) which looks like ?some words in Cyrillic(the length varies)? and then the
set of numbers ?12*23 34*45? (another problem that some times it is ?12*23,
34*56?

And the number of raws is about 3000 so it is impossible to do manually

what I need to have at the end is to have it separately in different excel cells
- what is written in words - |  12  | 23 | 34 | 45 |

Do you think it is possible to do so using R (or something else?)

Thank you very much in advance and sorry for asking for help and so stupid
question, the problem is - I am trying and yet haven?t even managed to install
openSUSE onto my laptop - only Ubuntu! :)


Thank you very much!
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