R Studio crashing when using separate() function

Hi @sfluker30 , see this example for work with separate() function.

colors_df <- data.frame(colors = c("red,green,blue", "orange,purple", "pink,yellow,gray"))

library(tidyr)

colors_df %>%
  separate(colors, into = c("color1", "color2", "color3"), sep = ",")

# color1   color2  color3
# 1    red  green    blue
# 2  orange purple   <NA>
# 3   pink yellow   gray

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