Hi all,

My code looks like the following:
inname = read.csv("ID_error_checker.csv", as.is=TRUE)
outname = read.csv("output.csv", as.is=TRUE)

#My algorithm is the following:
#for line in inname
#if first string up to whitespace in row in inname$name = first string up
to whitespace in row + 1 in inname$name
#AND ID in inname$ID for the top row NOT EQUAL ID in inname$ID for the row
below it
#copy these two lines to a new file

In other words, if the name (up to the first whitespace) in the first row
equals the name in the second row (etc for whole file) and the ID in the
first row does not equal the ID in the second row, copy both of these rows
in full to a new file.  Only caveat is that I want a regular expression not
to take the full names, but just the first string up to the first
whitespace in the inname$name column (ie if row1 has a name of: New York
Mets and row2 has a name of New York Yankees, I would want both of these
rows to be copied in full since "New" is the same in both...)

Here is some example data:
ID NAME                          YEAR     SOURCE     NOTES
1  New York Mets               1900      ESPN
2  New York Yankees          1920     Cooperstown
3  Boston Redsox               1918      ESPN
4  Washington Nationals      2010     ESPN
5  Detroit Tigers                  1990      ESPN

The desired output would be:
ID   NAME                    YEAR SOURCE
1    New York Mets        1900   ESPN
2    New York Yankees   1920   Cooperstown

Thanks so much!

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