If you want to treat your data frame as if it were a vector, then convert it to a vector before you give it to grep.
unlist(tot) On May 15, 2020 12:24:17 PM PDT, Ana Marija <sokovic.anamar...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hello, > >this command was running for more than 2 hours >grep("E10",tot,value=T) >and no output > >and this command >df1 <- tot %>% filter_all(any_vars(grepl( '^E10', .))) > >gave me a subset (a data frame) of tot where ^E10 > >what I need is just a vector or all values in tot which start with E10. > >Thanks >Ana > >On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:13 PM Jeff Newmiller ><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: >> >> Read about regular expressions... they are extremely useful. >> >> df1 <- tot %>% filter_all(any_vars(grepl( '^E10', .))) >> >> It is bad form not to put spaces around the <- assignment. >> >> >> On May 15, 2020 10:00:04 AM PDT, Ana Marija ><sokovic.anamar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >Hello, >> > >> >I have a data frame: >> > >> >> dim(tot) >> >[1] 502536 1093 >> > >> >How would I extract from it all strings that start with E10? >> > >> >I know how to extract all rows that contain with E10 >> >df0<-tot %>% filter_all(any_vars(. %in% c('E10'))) >> >> dim(df0) >> >[1] 5105 1093 >> > >> >but I just need a vector of strings that start with E10... >> >it would look something like this: >> > >> >[1] "E102" "E109" "E108" "E103" "E104" "E105" "E101" "E106" "E107" >> > >> >Thanks >> >Ana >> > >> >______________________________________________ >> >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> >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. >> >> -- >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.