Split 1 Column into 2 Columns in a Dataframe [duplicate]

Answer 1

Some sample data. You could use a character vector, but I'll use a data frame to match your example:

df <- data.frame(Manufacturers = c("Ducati,Diavel", "Honda,Goldwing",
                                   "BMW,R1200GS", "Harley-Davidson,Fat Boy"),
                 stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

Use strsplit() to separate the strings. Note that it requires a character (not a factor) vector. Strsplit() returns a list object:

list <- strsplit(df$Manufacturers, ",")

Transform the list into a data frame and set appropriate column names:

library("plyr")
df <- ldply(list)
colnames(df) <- c("Manufacturer", "Model")