remove rows of a matrix by part of its row name

Hello,

Please always cc the list.

As for the question, yes, it does. If you want to remove just the ones
with exactly 73.1 use the pattern

grep("^73\\.1$", etc)

Explanation:

Beginning of string: ^
End of string: $
Escape special characters: \\ (needed because the period is a special
character.)

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

On 5/22/2018 12:50 PM, Ahmed Serag wrote:
> Thank you Mr. Barradas. The code works great. Unfortunately I have also
> some labeles with
>
>
> 173.1
>
> 273.1
>
>
> the grep script remove them also ?
>
> Any ideas Plz, Thanks again
>
>
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 22, 2018 1:34 PM
> *To:* Ahmed Serag; r-help at r-project.org
> *Subject:* Re: [R] remove rows of a matrix by part of its row name
> Hello,
>
> Use grep to get the row indices and then subset with a *negative* index
> to remove those rows.
>
> rn <- scan(what = character(), text = "
> 70/556
> 71.1/280
> 72.1/556
> 72.1/343
> 73.1/390
> 73.1/556
> ")
>
> mat <- matrix(rnorm(6*6), nrow = 6)
> row.names(mat) <- rn
>
> inx <- grep("73\\.", row.names(mat))
>
> new_mat <- mat[-inx, ]
> new_mat
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> On 5/22/2018 11:48 AM, Ahmed Serag wrote:
>> Dear R-experts,
>>
>>
>> How can I remove a certain feature or observation by a part of its name. To be clear, I have a matrix with 766 observations as a rows. The row names are like this
>>
>> 70/556
>> 71.1/280
>> 72.1/556
>> 72.1/343
>> 73.1/390
>> 73.1/556
>> Now I would like to remove all the rows that contain the text 73.1
>>
>> Any ideas or suggestion please ?
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> **********************
>>
>> Ahmed Serag
>>
>> Analytical Chemistry Department
>>
>> Faculty of Pharmacy
>>
>> Al-Azhar University
>>
>> Cairo
>>
>> Egypt
>>
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