Re: [R] Reformatting text inside a data frame

> On Sep 7, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Jon BR wrote: > > Hi John, > Thanks for the reply; I'm pasting here the output from dput, with a > 'df <-' added in front: > > df <- structure(list(rowNum = c(1, 2, 3), first = structure(c(NA, 1L, > 2L), .Label = c("AD=2;BA=8", "AD=9;BA=1"), class = "factor"),

Re: [R] Reformatting text inside a data frame

Hi John, Thanks for the reply; I'm pasting here the output from dput, with a 'df <-' added in front: df <- structure(list(rowNum = c(1, 2, 3), first = structure(c(NA, 1L, 2L), .Label = c("AD=2;BA=8", "AD=9;BA=1"), class = "factor"), second = structure(c(2L, 1L, NA), .Label = c("AD=1;BA=2"

Re: [R] Reformatting text inside a data frame

I'm not making a lot of sense of the data, it looks like you want more recodes than you have mentioned but in any case you might want to look at the recode function in the car package. It "should" do what you want thought there may be faster ways to do it. BTW, for supplying sample data have