[R] simple q: returning a logical vector of substring matches

[Christos Hatzis]

You can try the following:

 a == grep("ear", a, value=T)

-Christos

Christos Hatzis, Ph.D.
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Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 1:31 PM
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Subject: [R] simple q: returning a logical vector of substring matches

I'm a relative R novice, and sometimes the simple things trip me up.

Suppose I have

a <- c("apple", "pear")

and I want a logical vector of whether each of these strings contains "ear"
(in this case, F T). What is the idiom?

Quizzically,
Mark Lindeman

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