title: Creating a New Column with First Names
body: <p>I would like to add a new column to my data frame with first names. I am new to R, and I dont know how to do this. Thank you so much for your help.</p>
  
  <p>My data frame (a small portion of it):</p>
  
  <pre><code> name
   Carl J. Johnson
   David Marcus
   A. Anna Jane Lue
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to create a new data frame like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code> name              first_name
   Carl J. Johnson   Carl
   David Marcus      David
   A. Anna Jane Lue  A.
  </code></pre>