How do I split the value of a list to 2 separate columns in R?

Question

I used snscrape to get the geolocation of tweets for mapping them on the world map. The resulted coordinates come in format {'longitude': -70.7729481, 'latitude': 42.0616232}.

How do I split the list into two columns like?

longitude	latitude
-70.7729	42.06162

I've tried unlist, read.table and few other ways I could find online but none of them work. It usually just ends up as

V1	V2
{'longitude': -70.7729481	'latitude': 42.0616232}

Answer 1

Looks like you deal with json data, you perhaps can do it right away from your json string.

library(jsonlite)

str <- '{"longitude" : -70.7729481, "latitude" : 42.0616232}'
data.frame(fromJSON(str))

#     longitude   latitude
# 1 -70.7729481 42.0616232

Answer 2

string <- "{'longitude': -70.7729481, 'latitude': 42.0616232}"
data.frame(reticulate::py_eval(string))

  longitude latitude
1 -70.77295 42.06162