Try
> foo <- data.frame(oid = 1:3, functions = c("mean",
"sum", "sd"), type = c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE))
> foo
oid functions type
1 1 mean TRUE
2 2 sum FALSE
3 3 sd TRUE
> foo == "sum"
oid functions type
[1,] FALSE FALSE FALSE
[2,] FALSE TRUE FALSE
[3,] FALSE FALSE FALSE
> which(foo == "sum", arr.ind = TRUE)
row col
[1,] 2 2>
But can one risk this to fail if the class of some of the columns cannot be
compared to a string?????
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> -----Original Message-----
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r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of carol white
> Sent: 30. april 2014 13:42
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] position of a string in a data frame
>
> Hi,
> It might be a primitive question but how to find the position of a string
in a
> data frame? Suppose I search the word "sum" (case insensitive) in
a data
> frame and it is in the 7th row, 3rd column, how to retrieve the indices 7,
3? I
> tried to use grep with tapply but it doesn't work.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Carol
>
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