[R] Two questions about metacharacter in regexprs and function return

for the script, please kindly see the script below. At line 10 and line 13, my problems occurs. The first one is I try to retrieve the gene official name from a column of a table. The pattern of official name is something starting with gene_name. For detail problems, please see the according line

[R] Two questions about metacharacter in regexprs and function return

for the script, please kindly see the script below. At line 10 and line 13, my problems occurs. The first one is I try to retrieve the gene official name from a column of a table. The pattern of official name is something starting with gene_name. For detail problems, please see the according line