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Da: [email protected]
Inviato: gio 27/05/2010 16.37
A: [email protected]
Oggetto: how to extract the 1st field from a vector of strings
I have the following vector of strings (shown only the first 3 elements)
> desc[1:3]
[1] "hsa-let-7a MIMAT0000062 Homo sapiens let-7a"
[2] "hsa-let-7a* MIMAT0004481 Homo sapiens let-7a*"
[3] "hsa-let-7a-2* MIMAT0010195 Homo sapiens let-7a-2*"
> is.vector(desc)
[1] TRUE
> A <- unlist(strsplit(desc[1:3], " "))
> A
[1] "hsa-let-7a MIMAT0000062 Homo sapiens let-7a"
[2] "hsa-let-7a* MIMAT0004481 Homo sapiens let-7a*"
[3] "hsa-let-7a-2* MIMAT0010195 Homo sapiens let-7a-2*"
> as.vector(A)
[1] "hsa-let-7a MIMAT0000062 Homo sapiens let-7a"
[2] "hsa-let-7a* MIMAT0004481 Homo sapiens let-7a*"
[3] "hsa-let-7a-2* MIMAT0010195 Homo sapiens let-7a-2*"
>
I would like to extract only the first field (of variable length). That is I
need a vector containing
"hsa-let-7a "
"hsa-let-7a*"
"hsa-let-7a-2*"
The operator [[]][] works only on the single vector element. I would like to
extract the 1st field
with one single instruction rather than a loop as traditional programming
languages request.
Thank you in advance for you help.
Maura
tutti i telefonini TIM!
tutti i telefonini TIM!
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