grep

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nms <- c( "x1.one", "x1.black", "x1.othrrace", "x1.moddkna", "x1.conserv", "x1.nstrprty", "x1.strrep", "x1.sevngprt", "x2.one", "x2.black", "x2.othrrace", "x2.moddkna", "x2.conserv", "x2.nstrprty", "x2.strrep", "x2.sevngprt" )

grep( "black|conserv", nms, value = TRUE )

On May 8, 2021 10:00:12 AM PDT, Steven Yen <styen at ntu.edu.tw> wrote:

Below, the first command simply creates a list of 16 names (labels)
which can be ignore.

In the 2nd and 3rd commands, I am able to identify names containing
"black".

In line 4, I am trying to identify names containing "black" or
"conserv"
but obviously it does not work. Can someone help? Thanks.

names<-names(tp.nohs$estimate)[c(1:8,58:65)]; names

 ?[1] "x1.one"????? "x1.black"??? "x1.othrrace" "x1.moddkna"
"x1.conserv"? "x1.nstrprty"
 ?[7] "x1.strrep"?? "x1.sevngprt" "x2.one"????? "x2.black" "x2.othrrace"

"x2.moddkna"
[13] "x2.conserv"? "x2.nstrprty" "x2.strrep"?? "x2.sevngprt"

grep("black",names,value=TRUE)

[1] "x1.black" "x2.black"

grep("black",names,value=FALSE)

[1]? 2 10

grep(c("black","conserv"),names,value=TRUE)

[1] "x1.black" "x2.black"
Warning message:
In grep(c("black", "conserv"), names, value = TRUE) :
 ? argument 'pattern' has length > 1 and only the first element will be
used