Bill Hyman wrote: > Hi all, > > I read in a column which looks like "chr1:000889594-000889638", and need to > break them into three columns like "chr1:", "000889594" and "000889638". How > shall I do in R. Thanks a lot for your suggestions! > >
if strings is your vector of strings, this should do (assuming the format is stable across all entries): strsplit(strings, split=':|-') vQ ______________________________________________ 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.
