[R] using grep

[Greg Snow]

Look at the gsubfn package, it gives more options and will probably make what you are trying to do easier.

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Statistical Data Center
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of kayj
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> Subject: [R] using grep
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a character vector with naems of cities in the us. I need to
> extract
> the number that appear after the word "New York", for example,
> 
> x<-c("P Los Angeles44AZ", "P New York722AZ", "K New York20")
> 
> I want the results to be
> 
> 722, 20
> 
> 
> cab I use the grep function, if so how?
> I appreciate your help, thanks,
> 
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