Separate a string into words

Split a space-delimited string into a character vector of words, this saves a bit of typing and quote-matching similar to 'list of strings'.split() in python.

s(string)
separate(string)

Arguments

string	a spaced character string to be split into a word vector

Examples

df <- data.frame(a = s("chr1 chr2 chrMT"),
                 b = 1:3,
                 c = 5:7)

colnames(df) <- s("chr start end")
df
#>     chr start end
#> 1  chr1     1   5
#> 2  chr2     2   6
#> 3 chrMT     3   7

# separate is an alias for s
separate("split this string")
#> [1] "split"  "this"   "string"