[R] checking certain digits of a number in a column

Rainer Schuermann rainer.schuermann at gmx.net
Sat Jun 15 06:48:26 CEST 2013


Try
?grep

or
library( stringr )
?str_detect




On Saturday 15 June 2013 00:33:31 Yasin Gocgun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to check whether certain digits of a number, say, last five digits,
> appear in a column of a data frame. For instance,
> 
> For example,103 in "000103" (  data [data[,3] == "...103"] instead of
> data [data[,3] == "000103"] ) or 54780 in "12354780". Can someone let me
> know how to do so.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Yasin
> 
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