is there a way to convert a string with numbers to a list of numeric values?-CodePudding

Supose I have the following

X <- "1,2,3,4,5"

How do I get the sequence of numeric values

#[1] 1 2 3 4 5

I've already seen this example https://statisticsglobe.com/convert-character-to-numeric-in-r/ But it doesn't quite match with the problem above.

CodePudding user response：

This is one way of doing this:

library(stringr)

l="1,2,3,4,5"
as.numeric(str_split(l, ',', simplify = TRUE))

CodePudding user response：

1) scan will convert such a string to a numeric vector. Omit the quiet argument if you would like it to report the length of the result. No packages are used.

x <- "1,2,3,4,5"
scan(text = x, sep = ",", quiet = TRUE)
## [1] 1 2 3 4 5

2) If what you have is actually a vector of comma separated character stings. xx. and a list of numeric vectors is wanted then lapply over them.

xx <- c(x, x)
lapply(xx, function(x) scan(text = x, sep = ",", quiet = TRUE))
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## [1] 1 2 3 4 5
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## [1] 1 2 3 4 5