R:Extracting words from one column into different columns

Question

I\'ve been figuring this out for a couple of hours now. Let\'s say I have a column with 1-4 words, separated by space:

aba bkak absbs
a2aj akls bios
sad
fasa         


        

Answer 1

Try

library(splitstackshape)
cSplit(df1, 'V1', ' ')

Or

library(tidyr)
separate(df1, 'V1', paste0('V', 1:4), sep= ' ', extra='drop')

Or using base R

read.table(text=df1$V1, sep=' ', fill=TRUE)

NOTE: Used the column name as 'V1' and dataset as 'df1'