Dear Kathie,
Try also:
t(sapply(zz, function(x) as.numeric( strsplit(x, "")[[1]] )))
If you want to delete the column names, then
res <- t(sapply(zz, function(x) as.numeric( strsplit(x, "")[[1]] )))
dimnames(res) <- NULL
res
should do it.
HTH,
Jorge
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:13 PM, kathie <kathryn.lord2...@gmail.com> 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
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