title: How to split a single column into two in R
body: <p>I am new to coding in R. I have a large data set where the first column is the date and time separated by a space, and the everything else is separated by a semicolon.</p>
  
  <p>The date file looks as such: </p>
  
  <pre><code>20150605 050037;4492;1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have read  this file into a data frame using read.table. The output is as follows.</p>
  
  <pre><code>             V1         V2     V3
  20150605 050037    4492.00      1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now I would like to split the "V1" column to separate the date and time but I can't seem find an effective way to do it.</p>