[BioC] Searching for data in data.frames

[michael watson (IAH-C)]

Try

my.data.frame[grep("search term", my.data.frame$column.name),] 

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Subject: [BioC] Searching for data in data.frames


This may be a very basic question, but I am looking in the R manual and
I haven't found the right function... and I am sure it must exist
already. So I apologise in advance if I seem to be blind or missing
something! :)

What I am after is very simple. I am using Limma and I have a number of
data frames (RGList, MAList, MArrayLM...). Sometimes I just want to
locate the data for a particular gene, or where a particular value for M
occurs, etc.

I want to find, for instance, all occurrences of "COL6A3" in RG$genes,
and return the position of those occurrences, for instance 345, 7840,
15003. Then I can use that information to give me the foreground
intensities corresponding to that gene for any given slide.

I came across the function "subset" which seems like it would serve my
purpose (or could be adapted to serve my purpose), but I get errors no
matter what I do...

I appreciate this must be a pretty basic question, but... I have spent
the last hour searching for this and so far no luck. I was going to just
write a simple search function, but there must be already a function
already defined.

Thanks!

Jose

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