Splitting a string into new rows in R [duplicate]

Try the cSplit function (as you already using @Anandas package). Note that is will return a data.table object, so make sure you have this package installed. You can revert back to data.frame (if you want to) by doing something like setDF(df2)

library(splitstackshape)
df2 <- cSplit(df1, "Item.Code", sep = "https://stackoverflow.com/", direction = "long")
df2
#     Country Region Molecule      Item.Code
#  1:     IND     NA    PB102    FR206985511
#  2:    THAI     AP    PB103      BA-107603 
#  3:    THAI     AP    PB103     F000113361 
#  4:    THAI     AP    PB103         107603
#  5:    LUXE     NA    PB105        1012701 
#  6:    LUXE     NA    PB105    SGP-1012701 
#  7:    LUXE     NA    PB105     F041701000
#  8:     IND     AP    PB106    AU206985211 
#  9:     IND     AP    PB106  CA-F206985211
# 10:    THAI     HP    PB107     F034702000 
# 11:    THAI     HP    PB107        1010701 
# 12:    THAI     HP    PB107    SGP-1010701
# 13:    BANG     NA    PB108     F000007970
# 14:    BANG     NA    PB108          25781
# 15:    BANG     NA    PB108       20009021

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