On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Joshua Budman <josh.bud...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Thank you very much. You are correct, it is a data frame. However, the code > below is still returning the full data frame. Do you have any suggestions? > Thanks in advance, > Josh > On 22-Jun-12, at 12:22 PM, Sarah Goslee wrote: > > Alu<-mutList[grepl("Alu",mutList)]
Ah, a data frame. We need to know that. Since you want to search a specific column for "Alu", you need to tell R that. Alu <- mutList[grep("Alu", mutList$Alu), ] more likely, but in the absence of data provided with dput() I can't test it. Please do read the posting guide. Sarah -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.