Hi, You could try this; dat2<-read.table(text=" Alu 1 AluJ 2 AluJ/F(R)AM 3 monomer 4 AluJ/FLAM 5 AluJ/FRAM 6 AluJ/monomer 7 AluJb 8 JBF 9 FRAM ",sep="",header=TRUE)
subset(dat2,grepl("Alu",dat2$Alu)) Alu 1 AluJ 2 AluJ/F(R)AM 4 AluJ/FLAM 5 AluJ/FRAM 6 AluJ/monomer 7 AluJb A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Joshua Budman <josh.bud...@gmail.com> To: R-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 12:14 PM Subject: [R] Search list of elements for a specific pattern Hi, I have a list of mutations, called "mutList", of the form: > head(mutList) Alu 1 AluJ 2 AluJ/F(R)AM 3 AluJ/FLAM 4 AluJ/FRAM 5 AluJ/monomer 6 AluJb It contains about 500 elements and not all of them contain the sequence "Alu". I tried using this code: Alu<-mutList[which(grep("Alu",mutList)==1)] But that simply returned all of them elements in the list. Is there a way to modify the list such that I have only the elements containing "Alu" in the new list? Help would be appreciated! Josh [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.