Hi,
You are right the == doesn't work, but there's a workaround using regular
expressions:
flist<-"fun|food"
grep(flist, data$label)
will give you the vector [2 4] which are the numbers of the rows of
interest!
Dirkheld wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have loaded a dataset in R :
> data =
>
> label freq1 freq2
> news 54 35
> fun 37 21
> milk 19 7
> food 3 3
> .... etc
>
> And I have a vector
> flist<-c("fun","food")
>
> Now I want to use the vector 'flist' for selecting these values from
> 'data' so that I get the following dataset :
> label freq1 freq2
> fun 37 21
> food 3 3
>
> When I do 'data$label==flist[1]' I get 'F T F F', so it works for one item
> in the char vector flist.
> But, when I do 'data$label==flist' I get 'F F F F' while I expected 'F T F
> T'. It seems that I can't perform this action with a vector of
> charstrings?
>
> Is there an other way to do so?
>
>
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