The “strsplit” Function in R

• Package: Base R (No specific package, it’s a built-in function)

• Purpose: To split a character vector into substrings based on a specified delimiter.

• General Class: String Manipulation

• Required Argument(s):

• x: A character vector to be split.

• split: A character string specifying the delimiter to use for splitting.

• Notable Optional Arguments:

• fixed: Logical. If TRUE, split is treated as a literal string. If FALSE (the default), split is treated as a regular expression.

• Example:

• # Example usage
  sentence <- "The quick brown fox"
  
  # Split the sentence into words using space as a delimiter
  words <- strsplit(sentence, split = " ")
  
  print(words)

• In this example, strsplit is a built-in function in base R, and it is used to split a character vector (in this case, a sentence) into substrings (words) based on a specified delimiter (in this case, the space character). The x argument is the character vector to be split, and the split argument is the character string specifying the delimiter. The result is a list containing the substrings obtained by splitting the input character vector.