[R] strsplit

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Edna Bell wrote:

> Hello R Gurus:
>
> I would like to take a character string and split at the $ sign.
>
> I thought that strsplit would do it, but here are the results:
>
>> vv
> [1] "whine$ts1"
>> vv
> [1] "whine$ts1"
>> strsplit(vv,"$")
> [[1]]
> [1] "whine$ts1"
>
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions, please?

Study the help page?

    split: character vector (or object which can be coerced to such)
           containing regular expression(s) (unless 'fixed = TRUE') to
           use for splitting.

is a big hint to try

> vv <- "whine$ts1"
> strsplit(vv,"$", fixed=TRUE)
[[1]]
[1] "whine" "ts1"

>
> Thanks,
> Edna Bell
>
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