title: What is the best way to turn a text variable that contains many variables into separate variables in R?
body: <p>I am working with a dataset where one variable has a number of variables within it. I need to parse through the text to extract each variable value in R.</p>
  <p>Current:</p>
  <pre><code>|-------------|-------------|-----------------------------------------|
  |  Customer   |    Group    |    Extra                                |
  |-------------|-------------|-----------------------------------------|
  |     1       |    A1       | {&quot;Field1&quot;:&quot;A&quot;,&quot;Field2&quot;:&quot;B&quot;,&quot;Field3&quot;:&quot;C&quot;}|
  |-------------|-------------|-----------------------------------------|
  |     2       |    A2       | {&quot;Field1&quot;:&quot;D&quot;,&quot;Field2&quot;:&quot;E&quot;,&quot;Field3&quot;:&quot;F&quot;}|
  |-------------|-------------|-----------------------------------------|
  |     3       |    A3       | {&quot;Field1&quot;:&quot;A&quot;,&quot;Field2&quot;:&quot;G&quot;,&quot;Field3&quot;:&quot;D&quot;}|
  |-------------|-------------|-----------------------------------------|
  </code></pre>
  <p>Desired:</p>
  <pre><code>|-------------|-------------|------------|-----------|-----------|
  |  Customer   |    Group    |    Field1  |   Field2  |   Field3  |
  |-------------|-------------|------------|-----------|-----------|
  |     1       |    A1       |    A       |   B       |   C       |
  |-------------|-------------|------------|-----------|-----------|
  |     2       |    A2       |    D       |   E       |   F       |
  |-------------|-------------|------------|-----------|-----------|
  |     3       |    A3       |    A       |   G       |   D       |
  |-------------|-------------|------------|-----------|-----------|
  </code></pre>
  <p>This seems like it should be easy, but I haven't been able to find a solution. Thank you for any help you can provide! I'm still new to R :)</p>