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Splitting and swapping names

I have names in the following format;

name1
"brown-john"
name2
"bloggs-joe"

To which i want to now change to read john brown and joe bloggs. Removing the '-' they are separated by isnt too much if an issue but im struggling to flip the names if anyone knows how thats possible?

Solution

  • You can use gsub:

    name <- c(name1 = "brown-john", name2 = "bloggs-joe")
gsub("(.*)-(.*)", "\\2 \\1", name)
#       name1        name2 
#"john brown" "joe bloggs"