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2006 Dec 09
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Filtering a data frame by regular expression
Hello,
I am having difficulty filtering a data frame.
I would like to take all the rows of a data frame where column A contains
the regular expression "UTI" (or some other regex). Here's what I've got:
utiRE <- function (avector) {
occurs <- c()
r1 <- "UTI"
for (x in avector) {
if (!is.na(grep(r1,x,perl=TRUE))) {
occurs <- c(occurs, TRUE)
} else {
occurs <- c(occurs, FALSE)
}
I know this is a clunky way of doing it, but I tried more natural ways first
(i.e. without iteration...