Isn't that just an inefficient way to do "age" == x
? -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On May 3, 2016 3:57:05 AM PDT, Ivan Calandra <ivan.calan...@univ-reims.fr> wrote: >What about? > >grep("^age$", x) > >Ivan > >-- >Ivan Calandra, PhD >Scientific Mediator >University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne >GEGENAA - EA 3795 >CREA - 2 esplanade Roland Garros >51100 Reims, France >+33(0)3 26 77 36 89 >ivan.calan...@univ-reims.fr >-- >https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra >https://publons.com/author/705639/ > >Le 03/05/2016 à 12:38, Steven Yen a écrit : >> Dear all >> In the grep command below, is there a way to identify only "age" and >> not "age2"? Thanks. >> >>> x<-c("abc","def","rst","xyz","age","age2") >>> x >> [1] "abc" "def" "rst" "xyz" "age" "age2" >>> grep("age2",x) >> [1] 6 >>> grep("age",x) # I need to grab "age" only, not "age2" >> [1] 5 6 >> >> Also, I post message to r-help@r-project.org and that's subject to >> approval by the list moderator. Am I sending it to the wrong address? >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. >> > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.