Thanks for the suggestion. Checked in that change.
Michael
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:06 AM, William Dunlap via R-devel
wrote:
> The new strcapture function in R-devel is handy, capturing
> the matches to the parenthesized subpatterns in a regular
> expression in the columns of a data.frame, who
Note that read.pattern in gsubfn does accept stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
e.g. using your input lines and pattern:
library(gsubfn)
Lines <- c("Three 3", "Twenty 20")
pat <- "([[:alpha:]]*) +([[:digit:]]*)"
s2 <- read.pattern(text = Lines, pattern = pat, stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
col.names = c("Name
The new strcapture function in R-devel is handy, capturing
the matches to the parenthesized subpatterns in a regular
expression in the columns of a data.frame, whose column
names and classes are given by the 'proto' argument. E.g.,
> p1 <- data.frame(Name="", Number=0)
> str(strcapture("([[:alpha
