Re: [R] Beginner: how to split up character string into different columns

Hi, May be this helps: dat <- read.table(text="Sample SFLS01A SFHS05B",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) dat1 <- setNames(as.data.frame(do.call(rbind,strsplit(gsub("([[:alpha:]]+)(\\d+)([[:alpha:]]+)","\\1 \\2 \\3",dat$Sample)," ")),stringsAsFactors=FALSE),c("site","tree","rep")) #or  

Re: [R] Beginner: how to split up character string into different columns

-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of jmcable Sent: Tuesday, 18 March 2014 10:13 a.m. To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Beginner: how to split up character string into different columns Hello, I'm an R beginner and am not

[R] Beginner: how to split up character string into different columns

Hello, I'm an R beginner and am not sure how to address this question. I've read through tutorials and am still stuck. I have a column in my data called "Sample". The samples are listed as four sites (SFHS, SFLS, NFLS, NFHS) with tree numbers (01 through 23) and replicates per tree (A and B). So,