Re: [R] splitting character strings and converting to numeric vectors

Try this: > x <- c("-448623_854854", "-448563_854850", "-448442_854842", "-448301_854833", + "-448060_854818", "-446828_854736") > > > read.table(textConnection(x), sep = "_") V1 V2 1 -448623 854854 2 -448563 854850 3 -448442 854842 4 -448301 854833 5 -448060 854818 6 -446828 854736 He

[R] splitting character strings and converting to numeric vectors

This seemingly should be quite simple but I can't solve it: I have a long character vector of geographic data (data frame column named "XY") whose elements vary in length (from 11 to 14 chars). Each element is structured as a set of digits, then an underscore, then more digits, e.g: > data.fram