Thank you, So my mistake was my data was a factor and not character,for strsplit Thanks so much
-----Original Message----- From: Rui Barradas [mailto:ruipbarra...@sapo.pt] Sent: 08 July 2013 15:55 To: Pancho Mulongeni Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Splitting coordinates into two Hello, Try the following x <- structure(...) sp <- strsplit(as.character(x), ",") G1 <- sapply(sp, `[`, 1) G2 <- sapply(sp, `[`, 2) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 08-07-2013 14:49, Pancho Mulongeni escreveu: > Hi users, > I have a simple vector of five coordinates in form of ('lat1, > long1','lat2,long2',...,'latn,longn') > And I would like to create two vectors, one just with the first > coordinate > G1<-c('lat1,'lat2',..,'latn') > G2<-c('long1,'long2',...,'longn') > > I am trying to apply strsplit(x=g,split=',') on my object g, but it is not > working, any help? > I struggle to understand how to use the regular expressions. > structure(c(32L, 38L, 40L, 34L, 27L), .Label = > c("-17.394217,15.886574", "-17.406994,14.393463", > "-17.491495,14.992905", "-17.5005,24.274635", "-17.776151,15.765724", > "-17.779911,15.699806", "-17.905569,15.977211", > "-17.921576,19.758911", "-18.607204,17.166481", > "-18.804918,17.046661", "-18.805731,16.940403", > "-19.030476,16.467304", "-19.12441,13.616567", "-19.163006,15.916443", > "-19.243736,17.710304", "-19.562702,18.11697", "-19.6303,17.342606", > "-19.939787,13.013306", "-20.107201,16.154966", > "-20.363618,14.965954", "-20.460469,16.652012", > "-20.484914,17.233429", "-21.256102,17.869263", > "-21.418555,15.949402", "-21.491128,17.853234", > "-21.943046,17.363892", "-21.980459,16.91328", "-22.000992,15.582733", > "-22.084367,16.750031", "-22.182318,17.072754", > "-22.447841,18.962746", "-22.576608,17.07859", "-22.649502,14.532166", > "-22.832516,17.183304", "-22.934365,14.521008", "-22.947328,14.508991", > "-24.477775,15.801086", "-24.621739,17.959728", "-25.460983,19.438198", > "-26.567955,18.134651", "-26.645292,15.153944", "-27.915553,17.490921", > "-28.017742,18.745594" > ), class = "factor") > > Pancho Mulongeni > Research Assistant > PharmAccess Foundation > 1 Fouché Street > Windhoek West > Windhoek > Namibia > > Tel: +264 61 419 000 > Fax: +264 61 419 001/2 > Mob: +264 81 4456 286 > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
