----- Forwarded message from morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org ----- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 22:24:23 -0700 From: morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org Reply-To: morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org Subject: Re: Identify groups in R To: morphmet@morphometrics.org
----- Forwarded message from Allowen EVIN ----- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 03:48:41 -0400 From: Allowen EVIN Reply-To: Allowen EVIN Subject: Re: Identify groups in R To: morphmet@morphometrics.org Dear Raquel, If you have a factor with your ID you can try the function substr(substring) as follow: substr(yourID, first letter you want to selectio, last letter you want to select) yourID should correspond to 'characters'. For example, if yourID looks like: "MNHN-1956" and you want to pick up only the numbers you can do: yourID