On Apr 19, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 20/04/11 07:19, Steven Wolf wrote: >> 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. >
> <SNIP> > > It sounds to me like you don't understand lists. If you are going to use > R you really should understand them. They are a wonderfully useful > concept and make doing many otherwise complex tasks an absolute > breeze. Learn to love lists. It will be rewarding! :-) Fortunes candidate.... :-) Cheers, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ 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.
