如何使用R分隔句子中的字母

Question

I have a character vector that is a string of letters and punctuation. I want to create a data frame where each column is made up of a letter/character from this string.

eg

 Character string = I WENT TO THE FAIR

 Dataframe = | I |   | W | E | N | T |   | T | O |   | T | H | E |   | F | A | I | R |

I thought I could do this using a loop with substr, but I can't work out how to get R to write into separate columns, rather than just writing over the previous letter. I'm new to writing loops etc so struggling a bit to get my head around the way in which to compose what I need.

Thanks for any help and advice that you can offer.

Best wishes,

Natalie

Answer 1

This should get that result

string <- "I WENT TO THE FAIR"
df <- as.data.frame(t(as.data.frame(strsplit(string,""))), row.names = "1")