I have a factor called 'utm_medium' in the dataframe 'data'
> str(data$utm_medium)
Factor w/ 396925 levels
"","affiliateID=&sessionID=0000821850667323ec6ae6cffd28f380&etag=",..:
366183 355880 357141 20908 357513 365348 368088 360827 31704 364767 ...
The data in this factor is delimited with '&'. I basically want the
affiliateID, sessionID and etag data separated. Ex.
> data$utm_medium[1:10]
[1]
affiliateID=4f3ac4b695e7d&sessionID=993f4c447e68dfc36ed692223349f2e3&eta
g=
[2]
affiliateID=4f3ac4b695e7d&sessionID=209dd9986ace55d50a450afeba62b78f&eta
g=
[3]
affiliateID=4f3ac4b695e7d&sessionID=2efdb8e1e1f5ac9c0d5baec355c78f85&eta
g=
[4] affiliateID=&sessionID=5a6ca9d41148f30ce694628427af7991&etag=
[5]
affiliateID=4f3ac4b695e7d&sessionID=331fbcdf1f3d5e7bac0d92c12e19f63d&eta
g=
[6]
affiliateID=4f3ac4b695e7d&sessionID=8fc27c8478e9bd30043ea4d3c7ddb29c&eta
g=
[7]
affiliateID=4f3ac4b695e7d&sessionID=af467d480addffca43ffbdbce1edfdb4&eta
g=
[8]
affiliateID=4f3ac4b695e7d&sessionID=598645e05a187ee63ff922a36360f021&eta
g=
[9] affiliateID=&sessionID=8895e21d0842ed45063ba8328dc3bc61&etag=
[10]
affiliateID=4f3ac4b695e7d&sessionID=88ca2998c5a91b6efbece0c4f79caeb7&eta
g=
396925 Levels: ...
affiliateID=50bfbbbeed918&sessionID=5c49c142cbf1b149c6a4647d1a4fc97b&eta
g=
I've parsed it via:
test <-as.character(data$utm_medium)
test <- strsplit(test, "&")
which results in a list, which I 'unlisted':
test2 <- unlist(test)
and then attempted to extract into separate vectors:
a <- vector(mode = "character", length = length(test2))
s <- vector(mode = "character", length = length(test2))
e <- vector(mode = "character", length = length(test2))
i <- 1
j <- 1
for (i in 1:length(test2))
{
a[j] <- test2[i]
s[j] <- test2[i+1]
e[j] <- test2[i+2]
i <- i + 3
j <- j + 1
}
This code runs, but I'm indexing it incorrectly and I can't figure out
why. I'll sleep on it tonight and probably figure it out, but I can't
help thinking that there's a much easier way to parse this data. Help!
Please!
joel
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