Hi Do you have a source data available. Maybe you could try to read it in such manner that you will get desired result without further adjustment. See all options in read.* functions.
If you really wanted to split already imported data you will need to use regular expressions and I am not an expert in them so I cannot help you much. Maybe you can paste all items in one row together and then strsplit the vector and bind all rows together. e.g. strsplit(paste("a b 10", "c d 15000", sep=" "), " +") Regards Petr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal dne 08.01.2008 15:36:30: > Hi, > > I have a matrix data with 21 rows and 6 columns. Below and attach with is my > matrix data. My problem is to split the column into 3 subcolumns (except for > column 3 and 4) . I want my new matrix data to have 14 columns and 21 rows. > Kindly help is highly appreciated. > > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] > [,6] > [1,] "CS 1 73 " " cfa1 3251712 24126920 " "20875208" "3" " hsa18 > 132170848 50139168 " " 24126920 24153560 8 " > [2,] "CS 2 3 " " cfa1 24153560 24265894 " "112334" "27" " hsa18 > 50105060 49934572 " " 24265894 24823786 7 " > [3,] "CSO 3.1 6 " " cfa1 24823786 27113036 " "2289250" "3" " hsa18 > 48121156 46579500 " " 27113036 27418228 13" > [4,] "CSO 3.2 4 " " cfa1 27418228 27578150 " "159922" "25" " hsa18 > 13872043 13208795 " " 27578150 28055666 9 " > [5,] "CS 4 4 " " cfa1 28055666 28835230 " "779564" "5" " hsa6 > 132311008 133132200 " " 28835230 29482792 7 " > [6,] "CS 5 46 " " cfa1 29482792 40120672 " "10637880" "4" " hsa6 > 133604208 146227152 " " 40120672 40539680 8 " > [7,] "CS 6 9 " " cfa1 40539680 43339444 " "2799764" "3" " hsa6 > 146390608 149867328 " " 43339444 43390788 13 " > [8,] "CSO 7.1 74 " " cfa1 43390788 59714992 " "16324204" "5" " hsa6 > 149929104 169714432 " " 59714992 59864308 15" > [9,] "CSO 7.2 52 " " cfa1 59864308 72417520 " "12553212" "4" " hsa6 > 116707976 131508152 " " 72417520 73256040 7 " > [10,] "CSO 8.1 12 " " cfa1 73256040 75192808 " "1936768" "6" " hsa9 > 98441680 96360824 " " 75192808 75272528 6" > [11,] "CSO 8.2 56 " " cfa1 75272528 91881664 " "16609136" "3" " hsa9 > 89530256 70341312 " " 91881664 92281272 5" > [12,] "CSO 8.3 22 " " cfa1 92281272 96913624 " "4632352" "5" " hsa9 > 261625 5755076 " " 96913624 98067040 5" > [13,] "CSO 8.4 15 " " cfa1 98067040 100692560 " "2625520" "6" " hsa9 > 93833248 89771184 " " 100692560 101013264 13" > [14,] "CSO 8.5 18 " " cfa1 101013264 102120080 " "1106816" "16" " hsa9 > 95832896 94012312 " " 102271920 102458192 25 " > [15,] "CS 9 55 " " cfa1 102458192 105936824 " "3478632" "16" " hsa19 > 63765096 59618416 " " 105936824 106097392 35 " > [16,] "CSO 10.1 81 " " cfa1 106097392 110263696 " "4166304" "19" " hsa19 > 59386008 54256216 " " 110263696 110288752 60" > [17,] "CSO 10.2 18 " " cfa1 110288752 110567608 " "278856" "65" " hsa19 > 54163196 53814360 " " 110567608 110575576 50" > [18,] "CSO 10.3 60 " " cfa1 110575576 112727048 " "2151472" "28" " hsa19 > 53649284 50959884 " " 112727048 112775144 40 " > [19,] "CS 11 173 " " cfa1 112775144 119848336 " "7073192" "24" " hsa19 > 50887772 40849556 " " 119848336 119880560 55 " > [20,] "CS 12 33 " " cfa1 119880560 121690672 " "1810112" "18" " hsa19 > 40824500 38556448 " " 121690672 121820640 16 " > [21,] "CS 13 22 " " cfa1 121820640 124798800 " "2978160" "7" " hsa19 > 38391408 34709332 " " 124798800 NA NA " > > > Thanks in advance. > > Cheers, > Anisah > > > --------------------------------- > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] > [,6] > [1,] "CS 1 73 " " cfa1 3251712 24126920 " "20875208" "3" " hsa18 > 132170848 50139168 " " 24126920 24153560 8 " > [2,] "CS 2 3 " " cfa1 24153560 24265894 " "112334" "27" " hsa18 > 50105060 49934572 " " 24265894 24823786 7 " > [3,] "CSO 3.1 6 " " cfa1 24823786 27113036 " "2289250" "3" " hsa18 > 48121156 46579500 " " 27113036 27418228 13" > [4,] "CSO 3.2 4 " " cfa1 27418228 27578150 " "159922" "25" " hsa18 > 13872043 13208795 " " 27578150 28055666 9 " > [5,] "CS 4 4 " " cfa1 28055666 28835230 " "779564" "5" " hsa6 > 132311008 133132200 " " 28835230 29482792 7 " > [6,] "CS 5 46 " " cfa1 29482792 40120672 " "10637880" "4" " hsa6 > 133604208 146227152 " " 40120672 40539680 8 " > [7,] "CS 6 9 " " cfa1 40539680 43339444 " "2799764" "3" " hsa6 > 146390608 149867328 " " 43339444 43390788 13 " > [8,] "CSO 7.1 74 " " cfa1 43390788 59714992 " "16324204" "5" " hsa6 > 149929104 169714432 " " 59714992 59864308 15" > [9,] "CSO 7.2 52 " " cfa1 59864308 72417520 " "12553212" "4" " hsa6 > 116707976 131508152 " " 72417520 73256040 7 " > [10,] "CSO 8.1 12 " " cfa1 73256040 75192808 " "1936768" "6" " hsa9 > 98441680 96360824 " " 75192808 75272528 6" > [11,] "CSO 8.2 56 " " cfa1 75272528 91881664 " "16609136" "3" " hsa9 > 89530256 70341312 " " 91881664 92281272 5" > [12,] "CSO 8.3 22 " " cfa1 92281272 96913624 " "4632352" "5" " hsa9 > 261625 5755076 " " 96913624 98067040 5" > [13,] "CSO 8.4 15 " " cfa1 98067040 100692560 " "2625520" "6" " hsa9 > 93833248 89771184 " " 100692560 101013264 13" > [14,] "CSO 8.5 18 " " cfa1 101013264 102120080 " "1106816" "16" " hsa9 > 95832896 94012312 " " 102271920 102458192 25 " > [15,] "CS 9 55 " " cfa1 102458192 105936824 " "3478632" "16" " hsa19 > 63765096 59618416 " " 105936824 106097392 35 " > [16,] "CSO 10.1 81 " " cfa1 106097392 110263696 " "4166304" "19" " hsa19 > 59386008 54256216 " " 110263696 110288752 60" > [17,] "CSO 10.2 18 " " cfa1 110288752 110567608 " "278856" "65" " hsa19 > 54163196 53814360 " " 110567608 110575576 50" > [18,] "CSO 10.3 60 " " cfa1 110575576 112727048 " "2151472" "28" " hsa19 > 53649284 50959884 " " 112727048 112775144 40 " > [19,] "CS 11 173 " " cfa1 112775144 119848336 " "7073192" "24" " hsa19 > 50887772 40849556 " " 119848336 119880560 55 " > [20,] "CS 12 33 " " cfa1 119880560 121690672 " "1810112" "18" " hsa19 > 40824500 38556448 " " 121690672 121820640 16 " > [21,] "CS 13 22 " " cfa1 121820640 124798800 " "2978160" "7" " hsa19 > 38391408 34709332 " " 124798800 NA NA " > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.