You can use grepl:

> dat<-data.frame(test=c("abc","cdf","dabc"))
> d<-subset(dat,grepl(test,"abc"))
> d
  test
1  abc
3 dabc



On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Matevž Pavlič <matevz.pavlic@gi-zrmk.si>wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> Is it possible (i am sure it is)  to subset data from a data.frame on the
> basis of SQL >LIKE< operator. I.e., i would like to subset a data where only
> values which contains a string >GP< would be used?
>
>
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> Example:
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> Gp<-subset(DF, DF$USCS like >GP<)
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> This like of course is not working,
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> Thanks, m
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