Re: [R] help with string split in R

2013-06-17 Thread arun
gsub("_.*","",myInput) #[1] "afg3"  "alg12" "dbp3"  "elp4"  "fob1"  "gpr1" A.K. - Original Message - From: CompBiol ATL To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Hong Qin Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 6:52 PM Sub

Re: [R] help with string split in R

2013-06-17 Thread Jeff Newmiller
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[R] help with string split in R

2013-06-17 Thread CompBiol ATL
#I want to remove '_alpha' in a vector of strings myInput = c( "afg3_alpha", "alg12_alpha", "dbp3_alpha", "elp4_alpha", "fob1_alpha", "gpr1_alpha") #my current solution tmpsplit = strsplit(myInput, '_') tmp = NA for (item in tmpsplit){ tmp = c(tmp, item[1]) } results1 = tmp[-1]; #this is wha