try  'regexpr'

> a <- c("apple", "pear")
> regexpr('ear',a)!=-1
[1] FALSE  TRUE
>



On 1/20/07, lindeman@bard.edu <lindeman@bard.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm a relative R novice, and sometimes the simple things trip me up.
>
> Suppose I have
>
> a <- c("apple", "pear")
>
> and I want a logical vector of whether each of these strings contains
> "ear" (in this case, F T). What is the idiom?
>
> Quizzically,
> Mark Lindeman
>
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