Question

Sorry for possibly a complete noob question but I have just started programming with R today and I am stuck already.

I am reading some data from a file which is in the format.

3.482373 8.0093238198371388 47.393873
0.32 20.3131 31.313

What I want to do is split each line then deal with each of the individual numbers.

I have imported the stringr package and using

x = str_split(line, " ")

This produces a list which I would like to index but don’t know how.

I have learnt that x[[1:2]] gets the second element but that is about it. Ideally I would like something like

x1 = x[1]
x2 = x[2]
x3 = x[3]

But can’t find anyway of doing this.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

you can wrap your call to str_split with unlist to get the behavior you’re looking for.