[Rd] Objects and regex (PR#7970)

Rafal Kustra rafalku at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 20:34:57 CEST 2005


No bug, mystery solved. My fault.

I got 'generateSigma' when trying to match for "^genes?" not "^genes?$".

I keep forgetting '?' stands for '0 or more of prec. char' not for
'any char' as in shell.

best,
rafal



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On 26 Jun 2005 20:21:58 +0200, Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> rafalku at gmail.com writes:
> 
> > Full_Name: Rafal Kustra
> > Version: 2.1.0
> > OS: Linux
> > Submission from: (NULL) (64.229.198.89)
> >
> >
> > objects(pattern="^genes?$") returns "generateSigma" among other legal things.
> 
> Not on my 2.1.1:
> 
> > generateSigma <-1
> > objects(pattern="^genes?$")
> character(0)
> > objects(pattern="^genes?")
> [1] "generateSigma"
> 
> So. on what system did this happen?
> 
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