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Dear R users, I have a dataframe with one character field, and I would like to create two new fields (columns) in my dataset, by spliting the existing character field into two using an existing substring. ... something that in SAS I could solve e.g. combining substr(which I am aware exist in R) and "index" for determining the position of the pattern within the string. e.g. if my

Currently as the first column in a data frame I have string values in the format xx_yy - I want to create a new column with just the substring xx (for each row in turn). Three possible ways to do this might be (1) split the string by '_' using strsplit and paste the first of the resulting variables into a new column, but I have been unable to do this for each row of my data frame in turn

Description: Split the Strings in `x' into substrings according to the presence of substring `split' within them. -------------------- > strsplit("acbdefgSPLIThigkilmnSpPqrst","SPLIT") [[1]] [1] "acbdefg" "higkilmn" "p" "qrst" -------------------- Apparently, it will Split the Strings in `x' into

Dear Mao Jianfeng, "r-help-owner" is not the place for help, but: r-help at r-project.org (CC-ed here) In any case, strsplit() does the job, i.e.: > unlist(strsplit("BCPy01-01", "-")) [1] "BCPy01" "01" You can work with the whole variable, like: splitpop <- strsplit(df1$popcode, "-") then access the first part with >

Dear R Group Here is what i am trying to do.. but couldnt figure out how.. string<-"ABC DEFG HIJKLM NOPQ RSTUV WXY" string1<-substr(string,1,4) I want to create an R object string 2 ( following the logic shown).. R does not allow string subtraction.. any suggestions how to achieve this? string2<-string-string1 (it should now hold "DEFG HIJKLM NOPQ RSTUV WXY" I

Suppose I have a vector of strings: c("A1B2","A3C4","B5","C6A7B8") [1] "A1B2" "A3C4" "B5" "C6A7B8" where each string is a sequence of <column><value> pairs (fixed width, in this example both value and name are 1 character, in reality the column name is 6 chars and value is 2 digits). I need to

Hi, I need to split a string into 2 strings, with the split point defined by the last occurrence of some substring. I come up with some convoluted code to do so: str = "Chance favors the prepared mind" sub = "e" y = unlist(strsplit(str,sub)) z = cbind(paste(y[-length(y)], sub, sep="", collapse = ""), y[length(y)]); y z z[1] z[2] Is there a simpler way

Full_Name: Franc Brglez Version: R 2.9.1 GUI 1.28 Tiger build 32-bit (5444) OS: MacOSX -- 10.6.2 Submission from: (NULL) (24.148.163.114) I am demonstrating what may be a bug or my lack of experience. Please review as it would help to hear from someone. MANY THANKS -- Franc Brglez The function "binS2binV" returns what I consider a wrong value -- see the terminal output binS2binV =

In a string context, grep, gsub, sub are improperly treating NA (missing) as the string "NA", and returning unexpected results > grep("A", c(NA,"NA")) [1] 1 2 # expected: # [1] 2 > gsub("A", "X", c(NA,"NA")) [1] "NX" "NX" # expected # [1] NA "NX" > sub("A", "X",

Hi All, I'm looking for a way to get many substrings from a longer string and then stitch them together. But, since the longer string is really, really long (like 250 MB long), I don't want to do this in a loop and load and re-load the longer string many times. Does anybody have an idea? Maybe I could pass in two vectors (the first would have the starting coordinates, and the second

Recently working with strings and data I have found a small problem. Windows XP R 1.8.1 Reading data from a "txt file" with readLine. finding a specific line with "grep" command, all OK. but here comes the problem... After finding the correct line(s) i need to find a substring inside each string. In this case "tabs" I think it represented by "\t" in the

Dear R People: Here is a toy example: > x <- c("2E","5W","12H") > substr(x,2,2) [1] "E" "W" "2" > Sometimes x has 3 elements, sometimes 2. I want to extract the last element, and then extract the other 1 or 2 elements. How can I do this, please? TIA, Sincerely, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of

Can't seem to get the code below working. It gets stuck on line 24 inside the function hm; comments show the line in question. The function hm is called by sapply and is at the bottom of the code. Other stuff above line 24 works correctly including the first couple of lines of the function hm. Should I be using a different apply function or am I doing something wrong with xmlTreeParse ?

On 2/20/19 7:55 PM, Toby Hocking wrote: > Update: I have observed that stringi::stri_sub is linear time complexity, > and it computes the same thing as base::substring. figure > https://github.com/tdhock/namedCapture-article/blob/master/figure-substring-bug.png > source: > https://github.com/tdhock/namedCapture-article/blob/master/figure-substring-bug.R > > To me this is a

[R 1.7.1 on Windows XP Pro] Since R allows missing values for character variables, why are NA's not propagated by character manipulation functions? For example: > temp <- c("a", NA) > temp [1] "a" NA > is.na(temp) [1] FALSE TRUE > paste(temp[1], temp[2]) [1] "a NA" > substr(temp, 1, 1) [1] "a" "N" >

I have a huge number such as 78923698701 z<-78923698701 I want to find the integer of a given location, for example here, what is the 2nd number? 8. Thanks in advance! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/the-integer-of-a-given-location-tp25418729p25418729.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Help-Rs,   I'm doing some string manipulation in a file where I converted a string date in mm/dd/yyyy format and returned the date yyyy.   I've used regexpr (hat tip to Gabor G for a very nice earlier post on this function) in steps (I've un-nested the code and provided it and an example of what I did below.  My question is: is there a more efficient way to do this.  Specifically is

Hi all, One of my variables looks like this: .7_-.3_-.2_.9 And this is a character variable. I made this by combining four different number like .7, -.3, -.2, and .9 using paste function. Now, I want to go back to original format from this one combined character variable. For instance, I want to extract 3rd number, -.2, from this character. I know I can use substr function, but each position

I'm trying to write a simple function that does the following: [command] xify(5.2) [output] XXX.XX [command] xify(3) [output] XXX Any simple solutions (without using python/perl/unix script/...)? Thanks, Saghir --------------------------------------------------------- Legal Notice: This electronic mail and its attachments are i...{{dropped}}

Hi, Is there a way in R to get the string which matches the expression, where the expression is a substring of the parent string. Lets say, I have $i <- "transcript:ENST0000112334 pid:ENSP000012345" What I need is the string "pid:ENSP000012345" from $i using the query "ENSP". Appreciate your comments. Praveen Surendran School of Medicine and