R list of character vectors to list of lists

Asked Oct 05 '17 at 07:58

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I have an input that is like:

library(tibble)
input = as.tibble(["test1/data/data.rds", "test1/settings/setting.txt", "test2/stuff.rds"])

I am trying to turn this into a table with multiple columns so I want:

test1 | data | data.rds
test1 | settings | setting.txt
test2 | stuff.rds | NA

I can split the data by:

library(stringr)
split = stringr::str_split(input$value, '/')

that gives me a list of character vectors.

result = as_tibble(split)

gives me back a one column frame of character vectors rather than a multi-column construct?

What do I need to do to make it multi column? Blanks should be NAs.

This is different from previous questions because the number of columns is variable and not fixed

edited Oct 05 '17 at 08:21

asked Oct 05 '17 at 07:58

KillerSnail

You can use `separate_rows(input, value)` – akrun Oct 05 '17 at 08:00
that gives me a single column data frame rather than a 3+ column frame? – KillerSnail Oct 05 '17 at 08:09

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