Hi,
Try:
dat <- structure(list(`1` = c("Marius Muller -\nIT Services",
"Rockwood\nBrockhues",
"Microlog Services\nMarcos", "Firefox Services")), .Names = "1", class =
"data.frame", row.names = c("A",
"B", "C", "D"))
dat$`1` <- gsub("\n.*","",dat$`1`)
dat
# 1
#A Marius Muller -
#B Rockwood
#C Microlog Services
#D Firefox Services
A.K.
On Friday, May 2, 2014 3:19 AM, Mat <matthias.we...@fnt.de> wrote:
Hello togehter,
i have a litte problem. I have a data.frame with a view entries like this
one:
1
A Marius Muller -\nIT Services
B Rockwood\nBrockhues
C Microlog Services\nMarcos
D Firefox Services
I now want only the first description in the column until the "\n". How can
i do this?
The solution look like this one:
1
A Marius Muller -
B Rockwood
C Microlog Services
D Firefox Services
Thank you.
Best regards. Mat.
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