Hello Vijayan, Depending on your end goal the following could possibly help
substr(string,nchar(string1)+1, nchar(string)) or strsplit(string," ") HTH, Santosh On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Vijayan Padmanabhan <padmanabhan.vija...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 want to loop this till i reach the end of the original string.. > > stringn<-"WXY" > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Regards > Vijayan Padmanabhan > > [[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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
