Re: [R] Creating a dataframe from a vector of character strings

On 4/14/2011 2:04 PM, Cliff Clive wrote: I have a vector of character strings that I would like to split in two, and place in columns of a dataframe. So for example, I start with this: beatles<- c("John Lennon", "Paul McCartney", "George Harrison", "Ringo Starr") and I want to end up with a da

Re: [R] Creating a dataframe from a vector of character strings

On 15/04/11 09:04, Cliff Clive wrote: I have a vector of character strings that I would like to split in two, and place in columns of a dataframe. So for example, I start with this: beatles<- c("John Lennon", "Paul McCartney", "George Harrison", "Ringo Starr") and I want to end up with a data

Re: [R] Creating a dataframe from a vector of character strings

You could use ?unlist: structure(data.frame( matrix(unlist(strsplit(beatles," ")),length(beatles),2,T)), names=c("FirstName","LastName")) Note that this compact code does not guard you against typos, that is names with >2 or <2 elements. Hope that helps, Denes > I have a vector of ch