[R] grep command

[Jeff Newmiller]

Isn't that just an inefficient way to do

"age" == x

?
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On May 3, 2016 3:57:05 AM PDT, Ivan Calandra <ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr> wrote:
>What about?
>
>grep("^age$", x)
>
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>Le 03/05/2016 à 12:38, Steven Yen a écrit :
>> Dear all
>> In the grep command below, is there a way to identify only "age" and
>> not "age2"? Thanks.
>>
>>> x<-c("abc","def","rst","xyz","age","age2")
>>> x
>> [1] "abc"  "def"  "rst"  "xyz"  "age"  "age2"
>>> grep("age2",x)
>> [1] 6
>>> grep("age",x) # I need to grab "age" only, not "age2"
>> [1] 5 6
>>
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>> approval by the list moderator. Am I sending it to the wrong address?
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