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2011 Dec 05
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Subsetting a data frame
...I would like to know if there is a way to write a similar function that
looks for matches that start with the query string: as in
grepl("^pattern",x)
I started writing a function but am not sure how to get it to return the
dataframe or matrix:
for (i in 1:length(terms_include)){
db_new <- apply(db,2, grepl,pattern=i)
}
Applying this function gives me:
db_new <- structure(c(FALSE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE,
FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE), .Dim = c(4L,
4L), .Dimnames = list(NULL, c("ind", "test1", "test2...