Re: [Rd] invert argument in grep

2006-11-12 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
invert= would be consistent with the fact that egrep (-v), sed/vi (v) and awk (~!) all have special facilities as indicated to handle such negation/inversion. On 11/12/06, Romain Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > On 11/10/2006 12:52 PM, Romain Francois wrote: > >> Du

Re: [Rd] invert argument in grep

2006-11-12 Thread Romain Francois
Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11/10/2006 12:52 PM, Romain Francois wrote: >> Duncan Murdoch wrote: >>> On 11/9/2006 5:14 AM, Romain Francois wrote: Hello, What about an `invert` argument in grep, to return elements that are *not* matching a regular expression : R> grep("

Re: [Rd] invert argument in grep

2006-11-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/10/2006 12:52 PM, Romain Francois wrote: > Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 11/9/2006 5:14 AM, Romain Francois wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> What about an `invert` argument in grep, to return elements that are >>> *not* matching a regular expression : >>> >>> R> grep("pink", colors(), invert = TRUE,

Re: [Rd] invert argument in grep

2006-11-10 Thread Romain Francois
Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11/9/2006 5:14 AM, Romain Francois wrote: >> Hello, >> >> What about an `invert` argument in grep, to return elements that are >> *not* matching a regular expression : >> >> R> grep("pink", colors(), invert = TRUE, value = TRUE) >> >> would essentially return the same as

Re: [Rd] invert argument in grep

2006-11-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/10/2006 6:28 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 11/9/2006 5:14 AM, Romain Francois wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> What about an `invert` argument in grep, to return elements that are >>> *not* matching a regular expression : >>> >>> R> grep("pink", c

Re: [Rd] invert argument in grep

2006-11-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11/9/2006 5:14 AM, Romain Francois wrote: >> Hello, >> >> What about an `invert` argument in grep, to return elements that are >> *not* matching a regular expression : >> >> R> grep("pink", colors(), invert = TRUE, value = TRUE) >> >> would essential

Re: [Rd] invert argument in grep

2006-11-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/9/2006 5:14 AM, Romain Francois wrote: > Hello, > > What about an `invert` argument in grep, to return elements that are > *not* matching a regular expression : > > R> grep("pink", colors(), invert = TRUE, value = TRUE) > > would essentially return the same as : > > R> colors() [ - grep(

[Rd] invert argument in grep

2006-11-09 Thread Romain Francois
Hello, What about an `invert` argument in grep, to return elements that are *not* matching a regular expression : R> grep("pink", colors(), invert = TRUE, value = TRUE) would essentially return the same as : R> colors() [ - grep("pink", colors()) ] I'm attaching the files that I modified (