I am just testing the possibility of using grep under for loop:
>for(i in 1:10){grep("a",letters)} nothing came out; when I ran: >grep("a",letters), I got "1" so in my for loop, I expected to see ten "1"s, but I did not. Could anybody help me to figure out why? Thanks a lot for your help. Capricy [[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.