Re: [R] From string to numeric

Hi Cristofer, Try as.numeric(strsplit(x, ",")[[1]]) HTH, Jorge On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Christofer Bogaso <> wrote: > Hi, I have a string like "1,2,5,7,8". > > From this I want to create a numeric vector of length 5 (total number > of numbers in above string), with each element will b

Re: [R] From string to numeric

> x <- "1,2,5,7,8" > as.numeric(unlist(strsplit(x, ','))) [1] 1 2 5 7 8 -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On

Re: [R] From string to numeric

Try this: x <- scan(textConnection("1,2,5,7,8"), sep = ",") On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Christofer Bogaso < bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I have a string like "1,2,5,7,8". > > From this I want to create a numeric vector of length 5 (total number > of numbers in above string), wi