Dear all, I am using grep but I did not understand the problem as I am doing something wrong.Please help me. I am using this code-
sf=data.frame(sapply(df[],function(x) grep('\\.&\\,', df[,9]))) the thing is i have a data frame(df) like this- 10 135349467 g G 4 0 0 5 ,,,., 10 135349468 t T 2 0 0 5 ,,c., 10 135349469 g G 7 0 0 5 ,,a., 10 135349470 c C 8 0 0 5 ,,,., 10 135349471 a A 10 0 0 5 ,,,., 10 135349472 g G 7 0 0 6 aa,.,, 10 135349473 g G 7 0 0 6 ,,c.,, 10 135349474 g G 4 0 0 6 ,,,.,, 10 135349475 a A 8 0 0 6 ,,,.,, 10 135349476 t T 1 0 0 6 g,,.,, 10 135349477 a A 7 0 0 6 ,,,.,, 10 135349478 a A 11 0 0 6 ,,,.,, I want to delete those rows which contains only . and , in column 9. and i want to store those rows in new data frame sf. so my output should be- df 10 135349468 t T 2 0 0 5 ,,c., 10 135349469 g G 7 0 0 5 ,,a., 10 135349472 g G 7 0 0 6 aa,.,, 10 135349473 g G 7 0 0 6 ,,c.,, 10 135349476 t T 1 0 0 6 g,,.,, sf 10 135349467 g G 4 0 0 5 ,,,., 10 135349470 c C 8 0 0 5 ,,,., 10 135349471 a A 10 0 0 5 ,,,., 10 135349474 g G 4 0 0 6 ,,,.,, 10 135349475 a A 8 0 0 6 ,,,.,, 10 135349477 a A 7 0 0 6 ,,,.,, 10 135349478 a A 11 0 0 6 ,,,.,, Thanking you, Warm Regards Vikas Bansal Msc Bioinformatics Kings College London ______________________________________________ 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.