As an R beginner, I feel brain dead today as I can not find the answer
to a relatively simple question.
Given a array of string values, for example lets say "mary", "bob",
"danny", "sue", and "jane".
I am trying to determine how to perform a logical test to determine if
a variable is an exact match for one of the string values in the array
when the number of strings in the array is variable and without using
a for loop and without comparing each value. Considering the power of
R, I thought this would be easy, but its not obvious to me.
Now I may not yet be one with the R fu so a bit more context.
I have a data frame that contains a column with text values. What I am
trying to do is use the subset function on the data frame to select
only data for "sue" or "jane" (for example.) But maybe I have not
taken the correct approach?
So obviously I could do something like the following.
subset( data_frame, name = "sue" | name == "jane", select = c(name,
age, birthdate))
However, my subset needs to be much more than 2 and being lazy I do
not want to type "| name == "some text" for each one.
Is there an other way?
Neil
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