R: Split character column and create two new ones

Question

R users

I have a data frame similar to this:

a <- c(\"John, 3 years\") 
b <- c(\"Mokobe, 11 years\")
c <- c(\"Ivan\")
df <- rbind(a,b,c)
df
          


        

Answer 1

with tidyr library:

library(tidyr)
df <- as.data.frame(rbind(a,b,c), stringsAsFactors=F)
separate(df, V1, c("name", "age"),sep = ",")