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i have a data column of text entries: 26M_AN_C.bmp 22M_AN_C.bmp 20M_HA_O.bmp 20M_AN_C.bmp 26M_HA_O.bmp 22M_HA_O.bmp 31M_AN_C.bmp 38M_HA_O.bmp . . . . And I would like to sort by the middle tag: AN, HA, etc. Is there a way to parse text data in R? In excel, I would have used the "left" and "right" function to cut out just the middle two letters out and put into another col...

Hi All, I've been having a little trouble with creating a loop that will run a a series of t.tests for inspection, Below is the code i've tried, and some checks i've looked at. I've used the get(paste()) idea as i was told previously that the use of the eval should try and be avoided. I've run a single syntax to check that my systax is correct and works without any problems