Question

I have a string :

string1 <- "This is my string"

I would like to convert it to a vector that looks like this:

vector1
"This"
"is"
"my"
"string"

How do I do this? I know I could use the tm package to convert to termDocumentMatrix and then convert to a matrix but it would alphabetize the words and I need them to stay in the same order.

Answer 1

You can use strsplit to accomplish this task.

string1 <- "This is my string"
strsplit(string1, " ")[[1]]
#[1] "This"   "is"     "my"     "string"