On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:43 AM, downtowater <downtowa...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > I've been trying to split a space delimited string with double-quotes in R > for some time but without success. An example of a string is as follows: > > /rainfall snowfall "Channel storage" "Rivulet storage"/ > > It's important for us because these are column headings that must match the > subsequent data. > > Here is some code I've been trying: > > str <- 'rainfall snowfall "Channel storage" "Rivulet storage"' > regex <- "[^\\s\"']+|\"([^\"]*)\"" > split <- strsplit(str, regex, perl=T) > what I would like is > > [1] "rainfall" "snowfall" "Channel storage" "Rivulet storage" > > but what I get is: > > [1] "" " " " " " " > > The vector is the right length (which is encouraging) but of course the > strings are empty or contain a single space. Any suggestions?
Try this: > scan(con <- textConnection(str), what = "") Read 4 items [1] "rainfall" "snowfall" "Channel storage" "Rivulet storage" > close(con) email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
