R convert large character string to dataframe

Question

I am having trouble converting a large text string to a dataframe. I\'ve been unable to figure this simple task out yet. Hoping for your help.

x <- \"1 ap         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

r <- unlist(strsplit(x, " "))
data.frame(id=as.numeric(r[c(TRUE,FALSE)]), name=r[c(FALSE,TRUE)])

#    id      name
#1    1     apple
#2  200 blueberry
#3 3000      pear
#4 4400 raspberry