title: splitting comma separated mixed text and numeric string with strsplit in R
body: <p>I have many strings of the form <code>name1, name2 and name3, 0, 1, 2</code> or <code>name1, name2, name3 and name4, 0, 1, 2</code> and would like to split the vector into 4 elements where the first one would be the whole text string of names. The problem is that strsplit doesn't differenciate between text and numbers and split the string into 5 elements in the first case and into 6 elements in the second example. How can I tell R to dynamically skip the text part of the string with variable number of names? </p>