colSplit function

Separate a Column Pasted by paste2

Separates a paste2 column into separate columns.

colSplit(column, col.sep = ".", name.sep = "&")

Arguments

• column: The pasted vector.
• col.sep: The column separator used in paste2.
• name.sep: Name separator used in the column (generally for internal use with colsplit2df).

Returns

Returns a dataframe of split columns.

Examples

## Not run:

foo1 <- paste2(CO2[, 1:3])
head(foo1, 12)
bar1 <- colSplit(foo1)
head(bar1, 10)

foo2  <- paste2(mtcars[, 1:3], sep="|")
head(foo2, 12)
bar2 <- colSplit(foo2, col.sep = "|")
head(bar2, 10)
## End(Not run)

See Also

colsplit2df, paste2