How to separate the characters of a string in R?

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I have values a string containing a date "01/01/2000" I want to separate the day, month and year.

#Data
#01/01/2000

be it

#Dia Mês  Ano
#01   01 2000

How do I do it in R?

string r

  • I have no experience in R, but isn’t it just a split by "/" ? Look for "split in r"

  • Thanks for the tip,... I found this portal interesting: http://rfunction.com/archives/1499

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Try it that way:

unlist(strsplit("01/01/2000", "[/]"))

or 

> strsplit("01/01/2000", "/")

  • It worked, thank you!

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For any string-related transformation I suggest the stringr. The function str_split always returns a list, regardless of whether it receives a vector with 1 or more elements.

> stringr::str_split(rep('01/01/2000', 5), '/')
[[1]]
[1] "01"   "01"   "2000"

[[2]]
[1] "01"   "01"   "2000"

[[3]]
[1] "01"   "01"   "2000"

[[4]]
[1] "01"   "01"   "2000"

[[5]]
[1] "01"   "01"   "2000"

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