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[wolfgangr.]

Another way of doing string-manipulation is using regular expressions. In this case this would do the job:

starwars |>
filter(species == "Human") |>
select(name) |>
mutate(first_name = str_extract(name, "^\\S+"))

[MathiasLundin]

For this example, I think it’s much better to use the ’word’ function in ’stringr’.
library(tidyverse)
starwars %>% filter(species == "Human") %>%
mutate('first name' = word(name, 1)) %>%
select(name, 'first name')
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