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Dan Daniel J. Nordlund Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Planning, Performance, and Accountability Research and Data Analysis Division Olympia, WA 98504-5204 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of kayj > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:50 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] How to split a character vector into 3 vectors > > > Hi , > > > Does any one know how to split a character vector , I have a > vector X that > looks like this and each row has 3 characters > > X > ASK > DGH > ASG > AUJ > FRT > > I would like to split the vector into 3 vectors that look like this > > X1 X2 X3 > A S K > D G H > A S G > A U J > U R T > > thanks > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/How-to-split-a-character-vector-into-3-v > ectors-tp21939492p21939492.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.