Hi, On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:13 PM, kathie wrote:
Dear R users... I'd like to change this character vector, "zz", zz <- c("12","56","89") to the following numeric matrix. [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 2 [2,] 5 6 [3,] 8 9 Actually, "zz" vector has a long length. Any comments will be greatly appreciated. Kathryn Lord
pieces <- strsplit(zz, "") # look at what pieces looks like my.data <- as.numeric(unlist(pieces)) my.matrix <- t(matrix(my.data, nrow=2)) my.matrix [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 2 [2,] 5 6 [3,] 8 9 -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact ______________________________________________ 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.