[R] Grep command

[MacQueen, Don]

Start with:

> all <- c("ants","birds","cats","dogs","elks","fox")
> all[grep('ants|cats|fox',all)]
[1] "ants" "cats" "fox"

Then construct the first arg to grep:

> some <- c("ants","cats","fox")
> all[ grep( paste(some,collapse='|') , all)]
[1] "ants" "cats" "fox"



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On 5/19/16, 4:09 PM, "R-help on behalf of Steven Yen"
<r-help-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of syen04 at gmail.com> wrote:

>What is a good way to grep multiple strings (say in a vector)? In the
>following, I grep ants, cats, and fox separately and concatenate them,
>is there a way to grep the trio in one action? Thanks.
>
>all<-c("ants","birds","cats","dogs","elks","fox"); all
>[1] "ants"  "birds" "cats"  "dogs"  "elks"  "fox"
>some<-c("ants","cats","fox"); some
>[1] "ants" "cats" "fox"
>j<-c(
>   grep(some[1],all,value=F),
>   grep(some[2],all,value=F),
>   grep(some[3],all,value=F)); j; all[j]
>[1] 1 3 6
>[1] "ants" "cats" "fox"
>
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