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tidyr (version 0.6.0)

extract_: Standard-evaluation version of extract.

Description

This is a S3 generic.

Usage

extract_(data, col, into, regex = "([[:alnum:]]+)", remove = TRUE, convert = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

data
A data frame.
col
Name of column to split, as string.
into
Names of new variables to create as character vector.
regex
a regular expression used to extract the desired values.
remove
If TRUE, remove input column from output data frame.
convert
If TRUE, will run type.convert with as.is = TRUE on new columns. This is useful if the component columns are integer, numeric or logical.
...
Other arguments passed on to regexec to control how the regular expression is processed.