Split a column into 2 in R

Question

 I have this dataframe 

      CC.Number       Date Time Accident.Type              Location.1
    1 12T008826 07/01/2012 1630            PD  (39.26699, -76.560642)
    2          


        

Answer 1

separate from tidyr also works

library(tidyr)
# Sub out the parentheses
df$Location.1 <- gsub("[()]", "", df$Location.1)

separate(df, col = Location.1, into = c("lat","long"), sep = ",")
#  CC.Number       Date Time Accident.Type       lat        long
#1 12T008826 07/01/2012 1630            PD  39.26699  -76.560642
#2 12L005385 07/02/2012 1229            PD 39.000549  -76.399312
#3 12L005388 07/02/2012 1229            PD  39.00058  -76.399267
#4 12T008851 07/02/2012  445            PI  39.26367   -76.56648
#5 12T008858 07/02/2012  802            PD 39.240862  -76.599017
#6 12T008860 07/02/2012  832            PD  39.27022   -76.63926