Re: [R] help with text patterns in strings

Thanks, Arun. I will study this as soon as possible. I really appreciate your time and R mentoring. Try this: res1<-sapply(vec3,function(x) length(vec2New[grep(x,vec2New)]) ) dat1<-data.frame(res1,Name=names(vec3)) dat1$Name<-factor(dat1$Name,levels=c(

Re: [R] help with text patterns in strings

, Burnette N" To: arun Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:55 PM Subject: RE: [R] help with text patterns in strings Arun, let me know if I should post this email separately, but it involves the script from our previous conversation.  I've been messing around as I think of potential sc

Re: [R] help with text patterns in strings

  F Sa # 2  0  0  1  1  3  4 #Or Using Bills' solution: dayNames[pmatch(vec2New,dayNames,duplicates.ok=TRUE)] # [1] "Friday"    "Wednesday" "Friday"    "Saturday"  "Sunday"    "Saturday"  #[7] "Saturday"  "Sunday" 

Re: [R] help with text patterns in strings

Friday" "Tuesday" "Thursday" NA NA "T" could be either "Tuesday" or "Thursday" so it is mapped to NA, as are entries like "Lunes" that do not match at all. Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -O

Re: [R] help with text patterns in strings

    "Wednesday" "Friday"    "Saturday"  "Sunday"    "Saturday"  #[7] "Sat"   "Sun"   "Th"    "F"     "Sa"      sapply(vec1,function(x) length(vec2[grep(x,vec2)]) ) #Su  M Tu  W Th  F Sa

[R] help with text patterns in strings

Let’s say I have a data set that includes a column of answers to a question “What days of the week are you most likely to eat steak?”. The answers provided are [1] “Friday”, [2] “Wednesday”, [3] “Friday, Saturday, Sunday", [4] "Saturday”, [5] “Sat, Sun”, [6] “Th, F, Sa” How can I tell R to count “