Hi all, >From one of the columns of the data frame I want to search and extract a text that contains Tall or Short and create new column that should contain these texts in a corresponding row. My example data and the desired output are shown below
dat<-read.table(text="obs Year char 1 2001 Tall156 2 2002 12565Tall 3 2003 all54 4 2004 Short 5 2005 54all 6 2006 7Short12 ",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=F) dat$new <- " " Desired out put obs Year char new 1 2001 Tall156 Tall 2 2002 12565Tall Tall 3 2003 all54 5 2004 Short Short 6 2005 Shall54 7 2006 7Short12 Short How do I get my desired output? Thank you. ______________________________________________ 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.
