Splitting Strings in R programming – strsplit() method

strsplit() method in R Programming Language is used to split the string by using a delimiter.

strsplit() Syntax:

Syntax: strsplit(string, split, fixed)

Parameters:

• string: Input vector or string.
• split: It is a character of string to being split.
• fixed: Match the split or use the regular expression.

Return: Returns the list of words or sentences after split. 

Splitting Strings in R language Example

Example 1: Using strsplit() function with delimiter

Here, we are using strsplit() along with delimiter, delimiter is a character of an existing string to being removed from the string and display out.

Output:

[1] "Geeks" "For"   "Geeks"

Example 2: strsplit() function with Regular Expression delimiter

Here, we are using regular expressions in delimiter to split the string.

Output:

[1] "Geeks" "For"   "Geeks"

Example 3: Splitting the dates using strsplit() function in R

We can also manipulate with date using strsplit(), only we need to understand the date formatting, for example in this date( 2-07-2020) following the same pattern (-), so we can remove them using delimiter along with “-“. 

Output:

[[1]]
[1] "2"    "07"   "2020"

[[2]]
[1] "5"    "07"   "2020"

[[3]]
[1] "6"    "07"   "2020"

[[4]]
[1] "7"    "07"   "2020"

[[5]]
[1] "8"    "07"   "2020"