Dear Phoebe, If I understand correctly that you always want to split a word into individual letters, then strsplit("AA", "")[[1]] will do the trick -- and help.search("split") turns up strsplit().
I hope this helps, John -------------------------------- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of phoebe kong > Sent: March-24-10 12:46 PM > To: r-help > Subject: [R] splitting word > > Hi all, > > Could someone tell me how to split a word. > > c("AA") > > to > > c("A","A") > > Thanks! > > Phoebe > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.