Text-to-column equivalent in R, splitting dataframe on character

Question

I\'d like to know how to split columns in a similar way that excel does in the \"text-to-column\" feature. There are many tutorials on stackexchange about how to split colum

Answer 1

Splitting with strsplit and then accessing with "[" seems to work. You do realize those were factors to begin with I hope?

spl <-strsplit(as.character(df$V1), ",")
data.frame(V1= sapply(spl, "[", 1), V2 = sapply(spl, "[", 2), df$V2)
  V1   V2  df.V2
1 01   02 11, 12
2 04      14
3 05   06 13, 14
4 07   08 11, 14
5 09      13
6 10      15