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noquote(strsplit("A text I want to display with spaces", NULL)[[1]]) x <- c("asfef", "qwerty", "yuiop[", "b", "stuff.blah.yech") # split x on the letter e strsplit(x,"e") unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", ".")) ## [1] "" "" "" "" "" ## Note that `split' is a regexp! ## If you really want to split on `.', use unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "\\.")) ## [1] "a" "b" "c"