On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:49 PM, array chip <arrayprof...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks Bernd! I tried your approach with my real example, sometimes it worked,
> sometimes it didn't. For example
>
> grep('[^(arg)]\\.symptom',"stomach.symptom",value=T)
> [1] "stomach.symptom"
>
> grep('[^(arg)]\\.symptom',"liver.symptom",value=T)
> character(0)
>
> I think both examples should return the text, but the 2nd example didn't.
>
> What was wrong here?Operator error :) Since you exclude 'r' before the '.', liver.symptom does not match the pattern. Peter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
