Re: [R] inverse of which()

2019-02-28 Thread Ed Siefker
That's exactly what I want! Thanks!
-Ed

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 5:14 PM David L Carlson  wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I completely understand your question. Would using grepl() 
> instead of grep() let you do what you want?
>
> 
> David L Carlson
> Department of Anthropology
> Texas A University
> College Station, TX 77843-4352
>
> -Original Message-
> From: R-help  On Behalf Of Ed Siefker
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 5:03 PM
> To: r-help 
> Subject: [R] inverse of which()
>
> Given a vector of booleans, chich() will return indices that are TRUE.
>
> Given a vector of indices, how can I get a vector of booleans?
>
> My intent is to do logical operations on the output of grep().  Maybe
> there's a better way to do this?
>
> Thanks
> -Ed
>
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Re: [R] inverse of which()

2019-02-27 Thread William Dunlap via R-help
The inverse of which() would have to know the length of the logical vector
to create.  The function could be
   invWhich <- function(whichTrue, length) {
   stopifnot(length <= max(whichTrue), !anyNA(whichTrue))
   v <- logical(length)
   v[whichTrue] <- TRUE
   v
   }
It isn't quite an inverse, as which() treats NA and FALSE the same.

Much of the time dealing with the logical vector (e.g, grepl() instead of
grep()) is less error prone than using which() to convert to indices of the
TRUE values.

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 3:04 PM Ed Siefker  wrote:

> Given a vector of booleans, chich() will return indices that are TRUE.
>
> Given a vector of indices, how can I get a vector of booleans?
>
> My intent is to do logical operations on the output of grep().  Maybe
> there's a better way to do this?
>
> Thanks
> -Ed
>
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Re: [R] inverse of which()

2019-02-27 Thread Jeff Newmiller
use grepl?

On February 27, 2019 3:03:27 PM PST, Ed Siefker  wrote:
>Given a vector of booleans, chich() will return indices that are TRUE.
>
>Given a vector of indices, how can I get a vector of booleans?
>
>My intent is to do logical operations on the output of grep().  Maybe
>there's a better way to do this?
>
>Thanks
>-Ed
>
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-- 
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

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Re: [R] inverse of which()

2019-02-27 Thread David L Carlson
I'm not sure I completely understand your question. Would using grepl() instead 
of grep() let you do what you want?


David L Carlson
Department of Anthropology
Texas A University
College Station, TX 77843-4352

-Original Message-
From: R-help  On Behalf Of Ed Siefker
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 5:03 PM
To: r-help 
Subject: [R] inverse of which()

Given a vector of booleans, chich() will return indices that are TRUE.

Given a vector of indices, how can I get a vector of booleans?

My intent is to do logical operations on the output of grep().  Maybe
there's a better way to do this?

Thanks
-Ed

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[R] inverse of which()

2019-02-27 Thread Ed Siefker
Given a vector of booleans, chich() will return indices that are TRUE.

Given a vector of indices, how can I get a vector of booleans?

My intent is to do logical operations on the output of grep().  Maybe
there's a better way to do this?

Thanks
-Ed

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