Hi,
A quick clarification:
The regular expression is a single quoted character vector, not a
character vector on either side of the | operator:
"MLH1|MSH2"
not:
"MLH1"|"MSH2"
The | is treated as a special character within the regular expression.
See ?regex.
grep(), when value = FALSE, returns the index of the match within the
source vector, while when value = TRUE, returns the found character
entries themselves.
Thus, you need to be sure that your ifelse() incantation is matching the
correct values.
In the case of grepl(), it returns TRUE or FALSE, as Rui noted, thus:
CRC$MMR.gene <- ifelse(grepl("MLH1|MSH2",CRC$gene.all), "Yes", "No")
should work.
Regards,
Marc Schwartz
Kai Yang via R-help wrote on 5/27/21 11:23 AM:
Hi Rui,thank you for your suggestion.
but when I try the solution, I got message below:
Error in "MLH1" | "MSH2" : operations are possible only for numeric, logical
or complex types
does it mean, grepl can not work on character field?
Thanks,Kai On Thursday, May 27, 2021, 01:37:58 AM PDT, Rui Barradas
<ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote:
Hello,
ifelse needs a logical condition, not the value. Try grepl.
CRC$MMR.gene <- ifelse(grepl("MLH1"|"MSH2",CRC$gene.all), "Yes", "No")
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
Às 05:29 de 27/05/21, Kai Yang via R-help escreveu:
Hi List,
I wrote the code to create a new variable:
CRC$MMR.gene<-ifelse(grep("MLH1"|"MSH2",CRC$gene.all,value=T),"Yes","No")
I need to create MMR.gene column in CRC data frame, ifgene.all column contenes
MLH1 or MSH2, then the MMR.gene=Yes, if not,MMR.gene=No
But, the code doesn't work for me. Can anyone tell how to fix the code?
Thank you,
Kai
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