I am trying to convert a string to a vector, and I'm stuck!
Suppose you have a string of numbers (string) that you want to convert to a vector (vec). I am able to split the string turning it into a list by using strsplit, but this makes a list, which I can't seem to access the way that I'd like to (it becomes a character list of only one(?!?) element.) string<-"1,1,2,3,5,8" list<-strsplit(string,",") list # Produces this ugly output with the [[1]] crap which doesn't let me in!!!!!!! vec<-c(1,1,2,3,5,8) # All I really want in the end (I'm reading each string from a .csv file using read.csv, so I can't just edit my way out of this as my csv file has 200 lines---and counting, if there is a more elegant way of doing this, let me know, my .csv file has other values in columns, and each string that I'm reading in has a different number of elements, so, for example, string2 might be "1,3,5,7,9" and string3 might be "7". My bigger problem is that I probably am not handling the data.frame object properly. In other words, I might be so bass-ackward that I'm doomed to fail without handling the original read-in properly. A sample of my .csv file looks like this: Rnum,Cnum,Pnums 1,1,"1,6,7,23,29,31,34,40,45" 1,2,"4,9,22,26,30,38,44,46,47" 1,3,"2,48" 1,4,"3,16,19,41" 1,5,"8,11,12,17,25" ) Thanks, Steven Wolf [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.