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R Programming Fundamentals
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R Programming Fundamentals

by Kaelen Medeiros
September 2018
Beginner
206 pages
4h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using stringr Package to Manipulate a Vector of Names

Herein, we will utilize the str_split() function to learn how to split character strings in R. In order to do so, the following steps need to be executed:

  1. Install and then load the stringr package:
install.packages("stringr") library(stringr)
  1. Create the names vector, a list of various names, and check its length to see how many names it contains:
names <- c("Danelle Lewison", "Reyna Wieczorek", "Jaques Sola", "Marcus Huling", "Elvis Driver", "Chandra Picone", "Alejandro Caffey", "Shawnna Lomato", "Masako Hice", "Wally Ota", "Phillip Batten", "Denae Rizzuto", "Joseph Merlos", "Maurice Debelak", "Carina Gunning", "Tama Moody") length(names) 
  1. Use str_split() to separate each name into ...
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ISBN: 9781789612998