Rnewbie wrote:
dear all,
I tried to use grep to match IDs in two dataframes
grep(DF1$ID[i], DF2$ID)
I wanted to use condition in a loop, but I have the problem to define what
is in return if a match is not found. I used mode() and class() to compare
between the attributes when a match is found and not found, but the mode and
class are the same in both cases, numeric and integer, respectively.
When a match is not found, grep returns "integer(0)". Is.numeric() and
Is.integer() of the return gave TRUE but arithmetic calculation is not
possible.
See the Value section of the ?grep man page. By default, R returns a
vector of indices of entries in x that match the pattern. Since you
have no matches, you get a vector of length 0. That is printed as
integer(0). (This is also the function call that would create a vector
of length 0.)
One simple test for no results is length(grep(...)) == 0.
Duncan Murdoch
For example,
If a match is not found for i=12,
grep(DF1$ID[12], DF2$ID) returns "integer(0)" and
grep(DF1$ID[12], DF2$ID)+10 returns "numeric(0)"
I will appreciate any suggestions. Thanks in advance.
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