一个简单的strsplit() 就可以了。
my.bands <- "George Ezra, Faith No More, Above & Beyond, Paloma Faith, Gavin James, DJ’s Waxfiend, Jebroer, Adje, Pop Evil, Jick munro & the amazing laserbeams, Robbie Williams, Avicii, The Script, Anouk, Kensington, Eagles of Death Metal, Dotan, The Wombats, Selah Sue, Shappard, John Coffey, Magic!, Joost van Bellen, East Camoran Folkcore, Foo Fighters, Pharrel Williams, Sam Smith, One Republic, Rise Agianst, De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, Counting Crows, Fiddler’s Green, Thyphoon, Kovacs, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, Oscar and the Wolf, Nick Mulvey, Urbanus, Willie Wartaal, Doppelgang, Ewert and the two dragons, Pierce Brothers,Kovacs, The Kendolls, Stringcaster, Sunday Sun, Toy Dolls, A$AP Rocky, Ride, Eskmo, Temples, The Pop Group, Blank Mass, Cairo Liberation Front, Daniel Norgren, Follakzoid, Ghost Culture, John Coffey, Kevin Morby, Kuenta I Tambu, Marmozets, Mourn, Patten, Sue The Night, The Coathangers, Tora, Vessels, The Libertines, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Brids, Noel Gallagher, AltJ, Altj, Royal Blood, Sohn, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Tallest Man On Earth, Black Mountain, Chet Faker, Death Cab For Cutie, Ear Sweatshirt, Evian Christ, Frist Aid Kit, Future Islands, Jonny Greenwood, Mew, Of Monsters And Men, The Vaccines, Ariel Pink, Alvvays, Wolf Alice, Weval, BADBADNOTGOOD, Bass Drum Of Death, Yak, Daniel Romand, Dan Dercon, Eagulls, Gengahr, Fickle friends, Steve Gunn, Liima, Hookworms, Kate Tempest, Kiasmds, Strand of Oaks, Little May , Matthew E. White, Metz, Off!, St. Paul, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Pissed Jeans, Pretty Vicious, Reigning Sound, Outfit, Sunset Sons, Waxahatchee, Daniel Wilson, Yung Lean, Kindess, Hinds,Damien Rice, The War On Drugs, Iggy Pop, FKA Twigs, Patti Smith And Her Band Perform Horses, Flying Lotus, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Damian Jr Gong Marley, Alabama Shakes, The Gaslamp Killer, Max Richter, Motorpsycho, Goat, Songhoy Blues, Andrew Brid, Glass Animals, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Misun, JD MCPherson, Happyness, Dolomite Minor, Meridian Brothers, Death From Above 1979, Blaudzun, Oscar And The Wolf, Clark, Ghost Poet, Omar Souleyman, Rhye, Bejamin Booker, Orkesta Mendoza, Ganz,The Chemical Brothers, Patrick Watson, Bleachers, The War on Drugs, The Antlers, Hot Chip, Rico & Sticks, Awolnation"
my.bands.vector <- strsplit(my.bands, ', ')[[1]] ## you could probably stop here, but you asked for a list, which means something specific in R
my.bands.list <- as.list(my.bands.vector)
> str(my.bands.list)
List of 159
$ : chr "George Ezra"
$ : chr "Faith No More"
$ : chr "Above & Beyond"
$ : chr "Paloma Faith"
$ : chr "Gavin James"
[list output truncated]
如果你想转换回字符串中带有's的字符串：
paste(shQuote(my.bands.list, type = "sh"), collapse = ', ')
[1] "'George Ezra', 'Faith No More', 'Above & Beyond', 'Paloma Faith', 'Gavin James', 'DJ’s Waxfiend', 'Jebroer', 'Adje', 'Pop Evil', 'Jick munro & the amazing laserbeams', 'Robbie Williams', 'Avicii', 'The Script', 'Anouk', 'Kensington', 'Eagles of Death Metal', 'Dotan', 'The Wombats', 'Selah Sue', 'Shappard', 'John Coffey', 'Magic!', 'Joost van Bellen', 'East Camoran Folkcore', 'Foo Fighters', 'Pharrel Williams', 'Sam Smith', 'One Republic', 'Rise Agianst', 'De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig', 'Counting Crows', 'Fiddler’s Green', 'Thyphoon', 'Kovacs', 'Kitty', 'Daisy & Lewis', 'Oscar and the Wolf', 'Nick Mulvey', 'Urbanus', 'Willie Wartaal', 'Doppelgang', 'Ewert and the two dragons', 'Pierce Brothers,Kovacs', 'The Kendolls', 'Stringcaster', 'Sunday Sun', 'Toy Dolls', 'A$AP Rocky', 'Ride', 'Eskmo', 'Temples', 'The Pop Group', 'Blank Mass', 'Cairo Liberation Front', 'Daniel Norgren', 'Follakzoid', 'Ghost Culture', 'John Coffey', 'Kevin Morby', 'Kuenta I Tambu', 'Marmozets', 'Mourn', 'Patten', 'Sue The Night', 'The Coathangers', 'Tora', 'Vessels', 'The Libertines', 'Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Brids', 'Noel Gallagher', 'AltJ', 'Altj', 'Royal Blood', 'Sohn', 'The Jesus & Mary Chain', 'The Tallest Man On Earth', 'Black Mountain', 'Chet Faker', 'Death Cab For Cutie', 'Ear Sweatshirt', 'Evian Christ', 'Frist Aid Kit', 'Future Islands', 'Jonny Greenwood', 'Mew', 'Of Monsters And Men', 'The Vaccines', 'Ariel Pink', 'Alvvays', 'Wolf Alice', 'Weval', 'BADBADNOTGOOD', 'Bass Drum Of Death', 'Yak', 'Daniel Romand', 'Dan Dercon', 'Eagulls', 'Gengahr', 'Fickle friends', 'Steve Gunn', 'Liima', 'Hookworms', 'Kate Tempest', 'Kiasmds', 'Strand of Oaks', 'Little May ', 'Matthew E. White', 'Metz', 'Off!', 'St. Paul', 'St. Paul & The Broken Bones', 'Pissed Jeans', 'Pretty Vicious', 'Reigning Sound', 'Outfit', 'Sunset Sons', 'Waxahatchee', 'Daniel Wilson', 'Yung Lean', 'Kindess', 'Hinds,Damien Rice', 'The War On Drugs', 'Iggy Pop', 'FKA Twigs', 'Patti Smith And Her Band Perform Horses', 'Flying Lotus', 'Fat Freddy’s Drop', 'Damian Jr Gong Marley', 'Alabama Shakes', 'The Gaslamp Killer', 'Max Richter', 'Motorpsycho', 'Goat', 'Songhoy Blues', 'Andrew Brid', 'Glass Animals', 'King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard', 'Misun', 'JD MCPherson', 'Happyness', 'Dolomite Minor', 'Meridian Brothers', 'Death From Above 1979', 'Blaudzun', 'Oscar And The Wolf', 'Clark', 'Ghost Poet', 'Omar Souleyman', 'Rhye', 'Bejamin Booker', 'Orkesta Mendoza', 'Ganz,The Chemical Brothers', 'Patrick Watson', 'Bleachers', 'The War on Drugs', 'The Antlers', 'Hot Chip', 'Rico & Sticks', 'Awolnation'"
这里是双引号的版本，注意双引号必须转义。
paste(shQuote(my.bands.list, type = "cmd"), collapse = ', ')
[1] "\"George Ezra\", \"Faith No More\", \"Above & Beyond\", \"Paloma Faith\", \"Gavin James\", \"DJ’s Waxfiend\", \"Jebroer\", \"Adje\", \"Pop Evil\", \"Jick munro & the amazing laserbeams\", \"Robbie Williams\", \"Avicii\", \"The Script\", \"Anouk\", \"Kensington\", \"Eagles of Death Metal\", \"Dotan\", \"The Wombats\", \"Selah Sue\", \"Shappard\", \"John Coffey\", \"Magic!\", \"Joost van Bellen\", \"East Camoran Folkcore\", \"Foo Fighters\", \"Pharrel Williams\", \"Sam Smith\", \"One Republic\", \"Rise Agianst\", \"De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig\", \"Counting Crows\", \"Fiddler’s Green\", \"Thyphoon\", \"Kovacs\", \"Kitty\", \"Daisy & Lewis\", \"Oscar and the Wolf\", \"Nick Mulvey\", \"Urbanus\", \"Willie Wartaal\", \"Doppelgang\", \"Ewert and the two dragons\", \"Pierce Brothers,Kovacs\", \"The Kendolls\", \"Stringcaster\", \"Sunday Sun\", \"Toy Dolls\", \"A$AP Rocky\", \"Ride\", \"Eskmo\", \"Temples\", \"The Pop Group\", \"Blank Mass\", \"Cairo Liberation Front\", \"Daniel Norgren\", \"Follakzoid\", \"Ghost Culture\", \"John Coffey\", \"Kevin Morby\", \"Kuenta I Tambu\", \"Marmozets\", \"Mourn\", \"Patten\", \"Sue The Night\", \"The Coathangers\", \"Tora\", \"Vessels\", \"The Libertines\", \"Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Brids\", \"Noel Gallagher\", \"AltJ\", \"Altj\", \"Royal Blood\", \"Sohn\", \"The Jesus & Mary Chain\", \"The Tallest Man On Earth\", \"Black Mountain\", \"Chet Faker\", \"Death Cab For Cutie\", \"Ear Sweatshirt\", \"Evian Christ\", \"Frist Aid Kit\", \"Future Islands\", \"Jonny Greenwood\", \"Mew\", \"Of Monsters And Men\", \"The Vaccines\", \"Ariel Pink\", \"Alvvays\", \"Wolf Alice\", \"Weval\", \"BADBADNOTGOOD\", \"Bass Drum Of Death\", \"Yak\", \"Daniel Romand\", \"Dan Dercon\", \"Eagulls\", \"Gengahr\", \"Fickle friends\", \"Steve Gunn\", \"Liima\", \"Hookworms\", \"Kate Tempest\", \"Kiasmds\", \"Strand of Oaks\", \"Little May \", \"Matthew E. White\", \"Metz\", \"Off!\", \"St. Paul\", \"St. Paul & The Broken Bones\", \"Pissed Jeans\", \"Pretty Vicious\", \"Reigning Sound\", \"Outfit\", \"Sunset Sons\", \"Waxahatchee\", \"Daniel Wilson\", \"Yung Lean\", \"Kindess\", \"Hinds,Damien Rice\", \"The War On Drugs\", \"Iggy Pop\", \"FKA Twigs\", \"Patti Smith And Her Band Perform Horses\", \"Flying Lotus\", \"Fat Freddy’s Drop\", \"Damian Jr Gong Marley\", \"Alabama Shakes\", \"The Gaslamp Killer\", \"Max Richter\", \"Motorpsycho\", \"Goat\", \"Songhoy Blues\", \"Andrew Brid\", \"Glass Animals\", \"King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard\", \"Misun\", \"JD MCPherson\", \"Happyness\", \"Dolomite Minor\", \"Meridian Brothers\", \"Death From Above 1979\", \"Blaudzun\", \"Oscar And The Wolf\", \"Clark\", \"Ghost Poet\", \"Omar Souleyman\", \"Rhye\", \"Bejamin Booker\", \"Orkesta Mendoza\", \"Ganz,The Chemical Brothers\", \"Patrick Watson\", \"Bleachers\", \"The War on Drugs\", \"The Antlers\", \"Hot Chip\", \"Rico & Sticks\", \"Awolnation\""