ss: ss

In alyssafrazee/usefulstuff: useful stuff

Description

extract a specific slot from each element of a character vector

Usage

ss(x, pattern, slot = 1, ...)

Arguments

x	character vector
pattern	slot separator
slot	slot index to get (default 1)
...	extra arguments for strsplit

Value

vector, same length as x, with elements consisting of only the slotth slot of the corresponding elements in x.

Examples

fullnames = c('Hilary Clinton', 'Florence Nightingale', 'Rosalind Franklin')
  firstnames = ss(fullnames, ' ', slot=1)
  lastnames = ss(fullnames, ' ', slot=2)

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