If your entire dataset looks like your example, try: do.call(rbind, sapply(zz, strsplit, split=""))
Note that strsplit() requires a character vector as its first parameter. -Brian J. Koch Data Manager Decision Development Inc www.decisiondevelopment.com -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of kathie Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:14 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] character vector -> numeric matrix ?? 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 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/character-vector--%3E-numeric-matrix----tp24703927 p24703927.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.
