strsplit
Split delimited strings in a column and insert as new rows [duplicate]
As of Dec 2014, this can be done using the unnest function from Hadley Wickham’s tidyr package (see release notes http://blog.rstudio.org/2014/12/08/tidyr-0-2-0/) > library(tidyr) > library(dplyr) > mydf V1 V2 2 1 a,b,c 3 2 a,c 4 3 b,d 5 4 e,f 6 . . > mydf %>% mutate(V2 = strsplit(as.character(V2), “,”)) %>% unnest(V2) V1 V2 … Read more