Splitting Columns in R based on space
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library(tidyr)
df <- data.frame(Location = c("San Jose CA", "Fremont CA", "Santa Clara CA"))
separate(df, Location, into = c("city", "state"), sep = " (?=[^ ]+$)")
# city state
# 1 San Jose CA
# 2 Fremont CA
# 3 Santa Clara CA
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Mridul Garg
Updated on June 14, 2022Comments
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Mridul Garg almost 2 years
I have a Location Column which looks like the following-
Location San Jose CA Santa Clara CA
I want to split into two columns. I'm using the separate function from tidyr, but giving the sep argument as " " gives me the following-
City State San Jose Santa Clara
How can I split the column based on only the second space?
structure(list(Location = c("San Jose CA", "Santa Clara CA")), .Names = "Location", class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -2L))