Try this:

myData$fullID <- sapply(gsub("^ +| +$", "",  myData$id), grep, x = fullID,
value = TRUE)

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Juliet Hannah <juliet.hannah@gmail.com>wrote:

> Here is some data (dput output below)
>
> > myData
>                              id                          group
> 1                           D599                              A
> 2                       002-0004                              B
> 3                         F01932                              A
> 18                          F16                               B
> 19                          F28                               A
> 20                           A94                              B
>
>
> and a vector of IDs (the full label).
>
> > fullID
> [1] "F16-284"      "ACC-A94-AB"   "ADAD599"      "002-0004BCC"
> "CDCF01932.AB" "F28DDB"       "NOMATCH-EX"
>
> For each id in myData, there could be a partial match in fullID. For
> example D599 in myData matches  ADAD599. I would like to add a column
> to myData that contains the corresponding fullID or NA if a match was
> not found.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Juliet
>
> #
> #Data
> #
>
> myData <- structure(list(id = structure(c(6L, 5L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L),
> .Label = c("                     F01932",
> "                   F16 ", "                   F28 ", "
>  A94",
> "   002-0004", " D599"), class = "factor"), group = structure(c(5L,
> 4L, 1L, 3L, 2L, 3L), .Label = c("                             A",
> "                           A", "                           B",
> "          B", " A"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("id", "group"
> ), class = "data.frame", row.names = c("1", "2", "3", "18", "19 ",
> "20  "))
>
> fullID <- c("F16-284", "ACC-A94-AB", "ADAD599", "002-0004BCC",
> "CDCF01932.AB",
> "F28DDB", "NOMATCH-EX")
>
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