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filter a data.frame in dependence of a column value

3 messages · Matthias Weber, Thierry Onkelinx, Enrico Schumann

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Hello togehter,

i have short question, maybe anyone can help me.

I have a data.frame like this one:

       NO       ORDER
1     1530     for Mr. Muller (10.0 -> 11.2)
2     1799     for Mr Giulani
3     1888     for Mr. Marius (11.2 -> 12)

I need a solution, which only contains the values in brackets. The result should look like the following:

       NO       ORDER
1     1530     for Mr. Muller (10.0 -> 11.2)
2     1888     for Mr. Marius (11.2 -> 12)

I tried it with the following code, but that doesn't work.

data4.1<-data3[data3$ORDER%in% "[(]*->*[)]",]

maybe anyone can help me.

Thank you.

Best regards

Mat
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Dear Mat,

You can use grepl() to select based on are regular expression.

subset(data3, grepl("\\(.*\\)", ORDER))

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
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1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

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2016-06-17 9:49 GMT+02:00 Matthias Weber <Matthias.Weber at fntsoftware.com>:

  
  
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On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, Matthias Weber <Matthias.Weber at fntsoftware.com> writes:
Try ?grepl instead of %in%.

x <- c("for Mr. Muller (10.0 -> 11.2)",
       "for Mr Giulani",
       "for Mr. Marius (11.2 -> 12)")

grepl("[(].*->.*[)]", x)