由于您已经知道需要第二个和第三个下划线之后的文本,您可以使用strsplit 并获取第三个和第四个结果。
> x <- "HELP_PLEASE_4_ME"
> spl <- unlist(strsplit(x, "_"))[3:4]
> data.frame(string = x, under2 = spl[1], under3 = spl[2])
## string under2 under3
## 1 HELP_PLEASE_4_ME 4 ME
然后,对于更长的向量,您可以在此处执行最后两行之类的操作。
## set up some data
> word1 <- c("HELLO", "GOODBYE", "HI", "BYE")
> word2 <- c("ONE", "TWO", "THREE", "FOUR")
> nums <- 20:23
> word3 <- c("ME", "YOU", "THEM", "US")
> XX <-paste0(word1, "_", word2, "_", nums, "_", word3)
> XX
## [1] "HELLO_ONE_20_ME" "GOODBYE_TWO_21_YOU"
## [3] "HI_THREE_22_THEM" "BYE_FOUR_23_US"
## ------------------------------------------------
## process it
> spl <- do.call(rbind, strsplit(XX, "_"))[, 3:4]
> data.frame(cbind(XX, spl))
## XX V2 V3
## 1 HELLO_ONE_20_ME 20 ME
## 2 GOODBYE_TWO_21_YOU 21 YOU
## 3 HI_THREE_22_THEM 22 THEM
## 4 BYE_FOUR_23_US 23 US