str_split: Split a Vector of Strings Following a Regular Structure
In Kmisc: Kevin Miscellaneous

Description Usage Arguments Details See Also Examples

This function takes a vector of strings following a regular structure, and converts that vector into a data.frame, split on that delimiter. A nice wrapper to strsplit, essentially - the primary bonus is the automatic coersion to a data.frame.

str_split(x, sep, fixed = FALSE, perl = TRUE, useBytes = FALSE,
  names = NULL)

split2df(x, sep, fixed = FALSE, perl = TRUE, useBytes = FALSE,
  names = NULL)

`x`	a vector of strings.
`sep`	the delimiter / `regex` you wish to split your strings on.
`fixed`	logical. If `TRUE`, we match `sep` exactly; otherwise, we use regular expressions. Has priority over `perl`.
`perl`	logical. Should perl-compatible regexps be used? Ignored when `fixed` is `TRUE`.
`useBytes`	logical. If `TRUE`, matching is done byte-by-byte rather than character-by-character.
`names`	optional: a vector of names to pass to the returned `data.frame`.

Note that the preferred method for reading text data with a single, one character delimiter is through read.table(text=...) or data.table::fread; however, this function is helpful in the case of non-regular delimiters (that you wish to specify with a regex)

strsplit

str_split(
  c("regular_structure", "in_my", "data_here"),
  sep="_",
  names=c("apple", "banana")
)
x <- c("somewhat_different.structure", "in_this.guy")
str_split( x, "[_\\.]", names=c("first", "second", "third") )

    apple    banana
1 regular structure
2      in        my
3    data      here
     first    second     third
1 somewhat different structure
2       in      this       guy