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On November 16, 2014 7:47:44 PM PST, Steven Yen <sye...@gmail.com> wrote: >Thank you Bill and Dennis. grepl worked great. >However, for reason I am not figuring out, the >code worked as I included the procedure >(subroutine) with a source command, viz., > > source("z:\\R\\mylib\\me.R") > >Compiling the routine into a library/package, as >I always do, then the command got ignored. Hmm... > >Steven > >At 10:22 PM 11/16/2014, William Dunlap wrote: >>Try grepl() to do pattern matching in strings. � ("%in%" checks for >>equality.) � E.g., using your original 'out' do >>� � out[ !grepl("sex|rating", rownames(out), ] >>to get all but the rows whose names contain the character sequences >>"sex" or "rating". >> >>Bill Dunlap >>TIBCO Software >>wdunlap <http://tibco.com>tibco.com >> >>On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Steven Yen >><<mailto:sye...@gmail.com>sye...@gmail.com> wrote: >>I like to remove from a data frame rows with >>labels containing certain string, e.g., "sex" >>and "rating". Below is a list of the data frame >>and my failed attempt to the rows. Any clues? Thanks. >> >> > out >>� � � � � � � � � est� � � se� � � t� � � p disc >>p.(Intercept) 26.430 13.605 1.943 0.053 >>p.sex� � � � � 3.502� 3.930 0.891 0.373 * >>p.children� � � 3.693� 4.521 0.817 0.414 * >>p.occu� � � � � 0.740� 1.116 0.663 0.508 >>p.rating� � � -7.897� 1.331 5.933 0.000 >>c.(Intercept)� 1.861� 0.965 1.929 0.054 >>c.sex� � � � � 0.221� 0.249 0.889 0.374 * >>c.children� � � 0.234� 0.289 0.810 0.418 * >>c.occu� � � � � 0.052� 0.079 0.663 0.508 >>c.rating� � � -0.556� 0.102 5.451 0.000 >>u.(Intercept)� 1.943� 1.017 1.910 0.057 >>u.sex� � � � � 0.221� 0.248 0.888 0.375 * >>u.children� � � 0.229� 0.276 0.827 0.409 * >>u.occu� � � � � 0.054� 0.082 0.663 0.508 >>u.rating� � � -0.581� 0.109 5.331 0.000 >> >> > out<-subset(out,!(names(out) %in% c("sex","rating"))) >> > out >>� � � � � � � � � est� � � se� � � t� � � p disc >>p.(Intercept) 26.430 13.605 1.943 0.053 >>p.sex� � � � � 3.502� 3.930 0.891 0.373 * >>p.children� � � 3.693� 4.521 0.817 0.414 * >>p.occu� � � � � 0.740� 1.116 0.663 0.508 >>p.rating� � � -7.897� 1.331 5.933 0.000 >>c.(Intercept)� 1.861� 0.965 1.929 0.054 >>c.sex� � � � � 0.221� 0.249 0.889 0.374 * >>c.children� � � 0.234� 0.289 0.810 0.418 * >>c.occu� � � � � 0.052� 0.079 0.663 0.508 >>c.rating� � � -0.556� 0.102 5.451 0.000 >>u.(Intercept)� 1.943� 1.017 1.910 0.057 >>u.sex� � � � � 0.221� 0.248 0.888 0.375 * >>u.children� � � 0.229� 0.276 0.827 0.409 * >>u.occu� � � � � 0.054� 0.082 0.663 0.508 >>u.rating� � � -0.581� 0.109 5.331 0.000 >> >>______________________________________________ >><mailto:R-help@r-project.org>R-help@r-project.org mailing list >><https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>PLEASE do read the posting guide >><http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[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.