splitText: splitText

In etabari/ehsanr: Basic tools for working in R

Description

This function splits the given column in the data.frame

Usage

splitText(vec, sep, part = 0, fixed = FALSE, fill = TRUE)

Arguments

vec	a vector of char objects
sep	character containing regular expression(s) (unless fixed = TRUE) to use for splitting.
part	the part of the split to return, when 0 returns all. defaults to 0.
fixed	logical. If TRUE match split exactly, otherwise use regular expressions. defaults to FALSE.
fill	logical. fill with NA when needed. defaults to TRUE.

Examples

splitText('hello2all4of222you', '\\d+')   # a vector ('hello','all', 'of', 'you')
splitText('hello.all.of.you', '.', fixed=TRUE)  # same as above
splitText('hello-all-of-you', '-')   # same as above
splitText('hello-all-of-you', '-', 2) # 'all'
splitText(c('all-2', 'any-3', 'never-4'), '-') # a data.frame with 2 columns
splitText(c('all-2', 'any-3', 'never-4-d'), '-') # The third column will be NA for the first two rows
splitText(c('all-2', 'any-3', 'never-4'), '-', 1) # a vector c('all', 'any', 'never')

etabari/ehsanr documentation built on Aug. 5, 2019, 4:07 p.m.