extractWord: Extract a vector of the n-th word by location from a vector...

In wStockhausen/wtsUtilities: Collection of miscellaneous utility functions developed by William Stockhausen

Extract a vector of the n-th word by location from a vector of character strings

Description

Function to extract a vector of the n-th word by location from a vector of character strings.

Usage

extractWord(x, which = 1, split = " ")

Arguments

x	a vector of character strings
which	integer indicating which word, by position, to extract
split	character string by which to define words

Details

Uses strsplit(x,split,fixed=TRUE) to split each character string in x into a list of vectors of 'words', then extracts the n-th word from each list element (where n is the input value of which). If a list element has less than which words, the associated value in the returned vector will be "".

Value

a vector of words extracted bby location from x (of length(x))

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