Sverre, Try this:
my.list <- split(names(my.vector), my.vector) my.list$base my.list$recommended Jean `·.,, ><(((º> `·.,, ><(((º> `·.,, ><(((º> Jean V. Adams Statistician U.S. Geological Survey Great Lakes Science Center 223 East Steinfest Road Antigo, WI 54409 USA From: Sverre Stausland <john...@fas.harvard.edu> To: r-help@r-project.org Date: 08/02/2011 01:24 PM Subject: [R] Extract names from vector according to their values Sent by: r-help-boun...@r-project.org Dear helpers, I can create a vector with the priority of the packages that came with R, like this: > installed.packages()[,"Priority"]->my.vector > my.vector base boot class cluster codetools "base" "recommended" "recommended" "recommended" "recommended" compiler datasets foreign graphics grDevices "base" "base" "recommended" "base" "base" grid KernSmooth lattice MASS Matrix "base" "recommended" "recommended" "recommended" "recommended" methods mgcv nlme nnet rpart "base" "recommended" "recommended" "recommended" "recommended" spatial splines stats stats4 survival "recommended" "base" "base" "base" "recommended" tcltk tools utils "base" "base" "base" How can I extract the names from this vector according to their priority? I.e. I want to create a vector from this with the names of the "base" packages, and another vector with the names of the "recommended" packages. Thank you Sverre ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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