Convert string into vector

Question

How can I convert this string into a vector?
"c(HJ229, HJ230, HJ231)"
The desired result is "HJ229" "HJ230" "HJ231".

I have tried using stringr, however the ( causes an issue because of regex.

t <- "c(HJ229, HJ230, HJ231)"

strsplit(str_remove(t, "c"), "(")[[1]]

Answer 1

You need to escape the parentheses to remove them with regex using \\ and provide multiple patterns to match separated by | (or).

library(stringr)

t <- "c(HJ229, HJ230, HJ231)"

str_split(str_remove_all(t, "c|\\(|\\)"), ", ")[[1]]
#> [1] "HJ229" "HJ230" "HJ231"

^{Created on 2022-02-25 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}

Answer 2

Using base R:

t = "c(HJ229, HJ230, HJ231)"
strsplit(gsub("[c()]", "", t), ", ")[[1]]

[1] "HJ229" "HJ230" "HJ231"

Using stringr:

library(stringr)
str_split(str_remove_all(t, "[c()]"), ", ")[[1]]

[1] "HJ229" "HJ230" "HJ231"

Answer 3

We can try

> scan(text = gsub("c\\((.*)\\)", "\\1", s), what = "", quiet = TRUE, sep = ",")
[1] "HJ229"  " HJ230" " HJ231"