On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Edna Bell wrote: > Hello R Gurus: > > I would like to take a character string and split at the $ sign. > > I thought that strsplit would do it, but here are the results: > >> vv > [1] "whine$ts1" >> vv > [1] "whine$ts1" >> strsplit(vv,"$") > [[1]] > [1] "whine$ts1" > > > Does anyone have any suggestions, please?
Study the help page? split: character vector (or object which can be coerced to such) containing regular expression(s) (unless 'fixed = TRUE') to use for splitting. is a big hint to try > vv <- "whine$ts1" > strsplit(vv,"$", fixed=TRUE) [[1]] [1] "whine" "ts1" > > Thanks, > Edna Bell > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. PLEASE do. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.