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Separate data containing digits and non digits

I have a character vector:

A <- c("terrestrial human",
       "animal 7 planet",
       "geographic 23 locations",
       "discovery kids")

I want to separate this into two vectors: one has all the entries containing digits, and the other containing data without any digits.

v1 <- c("animal 7 planet","geographic 23 locations") 
v2 <- c("terrestrial human","discovery kids")
Solution

  • I took the liberty of declaring Matrix A as a vector called A instead, since it seems to be one dimensional -

    A[!grepl(x = A, pattern = '[[:digit:]]')]
A[grepl(x = A, pattern = '[[:digit:]]')]